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A  MANUAL 

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NORTHERN  BAPTIST  CONVENTION 


THE  CONVENTION  SEAL 


A  MANUAL 


OF  THE 


NORTHERN  BAPTIST 
"     CONVENTION 


PREPARED  BY  REQUEST  OF 

THE  EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE 

TO  COMMEMORATE 

THE  COMPLETION  OF  TEN  YEARS  OF 
SERVICE  TO  THE  KINGDOM  OF  GOD 

1908-1918 


PUBLISHED  FOR  THE  CONVENTION  BY  THE 

AMERICAN  BAPTIST  PUBLICATION  SOCIETY 

PHILADELPHIA 


FOREWORD 


THIS  Manual  aims  to  acquaint  the  reader  with  the  structure  of 
the  Northern  Baptist  Convention,  its  methods  of  service,  the 
work  of  its  cooperating  and  affiliating  organizations,  the  func- 
tions of  its  boards  and  committees,  and  its  ministry  to  the  de- 
nomination and  the  kingdom  of  God.  The  sections  dealing  with 
these  matters  are  of  necessity  sketchy.  A  mastery  of  the  book 
will  equip  the  reader  with  all  knowledge  necessary  for  complete 
understanding  of  the  organized  activity  of  our  Baptist  brother- 
hood in  the  Northern  States. 

While  much  of  the  material  is  historical,  the  book  is  in  no 
sense  a  history.  The  story  of  causes  and  events  that  led  up  to 
the  organization  of  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention  and  the 
experiences  of  the  Convention  during  its  existence  require  an- 
other volume  of  much  larger  proportions.  The  preparation  of 
such  a  history  will  be  undertaken  as  soon  as  the  demands  of  a 
busy  pastorate  and  the  unusual  calls  for  service  to  our  country 
at  the  present  time  will  permit.  Much  of  historical  interest  has 
been  excluded  from  this  volume,  that  its  size  and  cost  may  be 
kept  within  reasonable  limits,  and  because  at  this  time  it  is 
thought  best  that  Baptists  should  realize  what  the  Convention 
is  and  how  to  use  it  for  the  promotion  of  the  kingdom  of  God, 
and,  most  of  all,  since  present  conditions  demand  that  we  should 
vitalize  every  part  of  it  with  the  enthusiasm  of  a  fresh  consecra- 
tion to  the  cause  of  Jesus  Christ. 

The  editor  hereby  expresses  his  gratitude  to  those  who  have 
furnished  the  material  for  the  book.  Their  names  will  be  found 
in  connection  with  their  contributions.  His  thanks  are  especially 
due  to  Dr.  Daniel  G.  Stevens  for  the  Index,  for  aid  in  reading 
the  proof,  and  for  other  services.  He  hopes  that  it  is  not  too 
extravagant  to  wish  that  copies  of  this  Manual  may  find  their 
way  into  each  church  in  our  denomination.  Efforts  to  achieve 
this  desirable  result  will  be  heartily  appreciated. 

W.  C.  BITTING,  Editor. 


CONTENTS 


PAGE 

I.  HISTORICAL  PREFACE.     By  Secretary  W.  C.  Bitting i 

II.  INTRODUCTION.     By  President  Harry  Pratt  Judson n 

III.  ORGANIC  DOCUMENTS  17 

1.  Act  of   Incorporation 19 

2.  Declaration  and  By-laws 20 

3.  Standing  Resolutions    30 

IV.  THE   STRUCTURE  OF  THE  CONVENTION.     By  Hon.   Edward   S. 

Clinch    33 

V.  THE  COOPERATING  ORGANIZATIONS 41 

1.  Directory  of  Cooperating  Organizations 43 

2.  American    Baptist    Foreign    Mission    Society.      By    J.    Y. 

Aitchison,  D.  D.,  Home  Secretary 44 

3.  American  Baptist  Publication  Society.     By  Guy  C.  Lamson, 

D.  D.,  General  Secretary 47 

4.  The  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society.     By  Charles 

L.  White,  D.  D.,  Secretary 50 

5.  Woman's  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society.    By  Mrs. 

S.  C.  Jennings 52 

6.  Woman's   American   Baptist   Foreign   Mission    Society.     By 

Miss  Nellie  G.  Prescott,  Foreign  Secretary 54 

VI.  THE  CONVENTION  BOARDS 57 

1.  The  Ministers  and  Missionaries  Benefit  Board 59 

1 i )  Members  of  the  Board 59 

(2)  Members  of  the  Board  for  Seven  Years 59 

(3)  Work  of  the  Board.    By  Rev.  E.  T.  Tomlinson,  Execu- 

tive Secretary   60 

(4)  Act   of    Incorporation 63 

(5)  By-laws ••..  64 

2.  The  Board  of  Education 68 

(1)  Members  of  the  Board 68 

(2)  Members  of  the  Board  for  Seven  years 68 

(3)  Work  of  the  Board.     By  Rev.  Frank  W.  Padelford, 

Executive  Secretary 69 


Vlll  CONTENTS 

PAGE 

(4)  Table  Number  I.     Baptist  Educational  Institutions  in 

the  Northern  States 74 

(5)  Table  II.    Report  of  Work  in  Universities 75 

VII.  AFFILIATING  ORGANIZATIONS   77 

1.  Directory  of  Affiliating  Organizations 79 

2.  Relation  of  the  Affiliating  Organizations  to  the  Convention. 

By  Secretary  E.  R.  Pope 81 

VIII.  THE  CONVENTION  COMMITTEES.    By  Prof.  Ira  M.  Price 89 

IX.  A  DIGEST  OF  CONVENTION  ANNUALS.    By  Prof.  Henry  K.  Rowe  99 

X.  THE  CONVENTION  HISTORICAL  TABLES 109 

1.  Convention    Sessions    . . . : in 

2.  Present   Officers    112 

3.  Members  of  Executive  Committee 112 

4.  Officers  for  Ten  Years 113 

5.  Members  of  Executive  Committee  for  Ten  Years 114 

6.  List  of  Important  Documents  in  Convention  Annuals.     By 

Recording  Secretary  Maurice  A.  Levy 117 

XI.  CONVENTION    STATISTICS.     By   Charles   A.    Walker,    Statistical 

Secretary    119 

1.  American   Baptist   Foreign    Mission    Society:    Receipts   and 

Disbursements    121 

2.  American  Baptist  Publication  Society :  Receipts  and  Disburse- 

ments     122 

3.  The  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society:  Receipts  and 

Disbursements    123 

4.  Woman's  American  Baptist  Foreign  Mission  Society :  Receipts 

and  Disbursements   124 

5.  Woman's  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society :  Receipts 

and  Disbursements    125 

6.  Statistical  Survey  of  the  Affiliating  Organizations :  Member- 

ship and  Property 126 

7.  Statistical  Survey  of  the  Affiliating  Organizations :  Contribu- 

tions     127 

XII.  INDEX.     By  Daniel  G.   Stevens 129 


HISTORICAL  PREFACE 

By  Secretary  W.  C.  Bitting 


HISTORICAL  PREFACE 


(These  notes  are  taken  from  the  minutes  of  the  meeting  for  the  organ- 
ization of  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention,  held  at  Washington,  D.  C, 
May  16,  17,  1907.) 

(1)  In  May,  1896,  at  Asbury  Park,  N.  J.,  "A  Commission 
on  Systematic  Beneficence "  was  created,  by  the  adoption  of  a 
series  of  resolutions  presented  by  the  Finance  Committee  of  the 
American  Baptist  Missionary  Union.     These  resolutions  were 
also  adopted  by  the  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society, 
and  the  American  Baptist   Publication  Society.     Rev.   F.   M. 
Ellis,  D.  D.,  of  Baltimore,  Md.,  then  declared,  "  We  have  unified 
the  denomination  at  the  contribution-box,  and  that  is  next  to  the 
throne  of  grace." 

(2)  In  May,  1897,  the  Woman's  Baptist  Home  Mission  So- 
ciety  adopted  resolutions,   urging  Northern   Baptists  to   com- 
bine all  their  missionary  periodicals  into  one,  and  pointed  out 
the  waste  occasioned  by  the  current  method  of  publishing  num- 
erous journals.    At  the  Anniversaries  the  same  year,  the  report 
of  the  Commission  on  Systematic  Beneficence  called  attention  to 
the  significant  and  the  suggestive  example  of  the  joint  efforts 
which  had  been  made  during  the  previous  year  by  the  three  gen- 
eral Societies  to  cancel  their  debts. 

(3)  In  November,  1898,  at  the  meeting  of  the  Baptist  Con- 
gress in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  Rev.  George  E.  Horr,  D.  D.,  then  editor 
of  "  The  Watchman,"  declared :  "  There  is  a  great  opportunity 
for  the  denomination  to  harmonize  its  missionary  work.  .  .  There 
is  just  as  much  necessity  that  the  work  of  the  Missionary  Union, 
the  Home  Mission  Society,  and  the  Publication  Society  should  be 
harmonized — note  that  I  do  not  use  the  word  unified — should  be 
harmonized,  as  there  ever  was  that  our  controversies  in  regard 
to  the  Bible  question  should  be  adjusted,  as  they  were  at  Sara- 
toga a  number  of  years  ago."    This  significant  deliverance  was 
the  subject  of  much  comment.    The  denominational  press,  par- 
ticularly "  The  Standard,"  started  discussion  which  increased  the 

3 


4  A    MANUAL   OF   THE    NORTHERN    BAPTIST    CONVENTION 

sentiment  in  favor  of  a  closer  relation  between  the  organizations 
that  were  conducting  our  denominational  work. 

(4)  So  far  the  discussion  had  related  principally  to  the  har- 
monious cooperation  of  distinct  organizations.    It  was  inevitable 
that  such  discussions  should  produce  a  feeling  in  the  hearts,  and 
a  conviction  in  the  minds,  of  many  intelligent  Baptists  that  our 
brotherhood  should  be  more  pronounced  and  an  exhibition  of  it 
in  Christian  work  more  manifest. 

(5)  In  May,  1900,  at  the  Anniversaries  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  "  A 
Commission  on  Coordination,"  composed  of  representatives  of 
the  general  Societies,  including  the  women's  organizations,  with 
Mr.  Stephen  Greene,  of  Massachusetts,  as  chairman,  was  ap- 
pointed to  consider  the  better  coordination  of  our  denomina- 
tional work.    The  duties  of  this  commission  were,  "  To  consider 
the  relative  amounts  which  the  denomination  should  be  asked 
to  furnish  for  our  different  benevolent  enterprises,  and  also  to 
consider  the  practicability  of  more  closely  coordinating  the  dif- 
ferent departments  of  our  denominational  work,  and  to  make 
such  other  recommendations  as  in  their  judgment  they  may  deem 
wise." 

(6)  In  May,  1901,  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  there  was  held  the 
first  of  several  general  meetings  of  the  denomination.    This  was 
a  mass-meeting  on  "  Coordination."    The  report  of  Mr.  Stephen 
Greene,  of  Newton  Center,  Mass.,  chairman  of  the  committee, 
made  six  notable  suggestions.    Among  them  was  one  that 

The  best  interests  of  our  work  as  a  denomination  require  that  the  annual 
gatherings  of  the  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society,  the  American 
Baptist  Missionary  Union,  and  the  American  Baptist  Publication  Society 
should  be  representative  and  delegated  bodies,  having  the  same  basis 
of  representation,  so  that  the  delegates  to  the  three  Societies  shall  be, 
so  far  as  possible,  identical 

As  a  step  necessary  toward  this  end  we  recommend  that  the  several 
Societies,  at  the  earliest  possible  date,  and  after  mutual  consultation 
through  their  executive  boards,  change  their  constitutions  so  as  to  require 
the  same  qualifications  of  voters  at  their  Anniversaries. 

It  is  believed  that  such  action  is  fundamental,  and  if  taken  would 
create  an  atmosphere  in  which  a  "  better  coordination  "  would  be  possible. 
If  the  executive  officers  and  boards  of  our  several  Societies  could  be 
brought  to  realize,  as  such  action  would  help  them  to  see,  that  their 
constituencies  were  actually  one,  a  distinct  advantage  would  be  gained, 
and  if  the  representatives  of  our  churches  could  go  up  to  the  Anniver- 


HISTORICAL   PREFACE  5 

saries  with  the  clear  conviction  that  an  actual  responsibility  concerning 
the  entire  work  of  the  denomination  rested  upon  them,  it  is  certain  that 
a  better  coordination  of  the  different  departments  o£  our  work  would 
be  the  result. 

It  was  at  this  general  denominational  meeting  that  many  re- 
marks were  made  upon  the  need  for  reforming  the  method  of 
conducting  our  Anniversaries,  and  for  improving  the  existing 
scheme  of  representation.  Objections  to  the  proposed  uniform 
basis  of  representation  were  raised  to  the  effect  that  it  was  a 
step  toward  consolidation.  There  were  also  vague  references 
to  an  impression  that  there  was  competition  and  rivalry  between 
the  Societies. 

The  Woman's  Home  Mission  Society,  during  these  Anni- 
versaries, adopted  resolutions  favoring  coordination,  and  advis- 
ing that  a  period  of  five  years  be  devoted  to  adjusting  existing 
interests  without  the  injury  of  any. 

At  these  Anniversaries  also  another  recommendation  of  the 
committee  of  which  Mr.  Greene  was  chairman  was  adopted, 
providing  for  an  annual  joint  meeting  of  executive  boards  or 
committees  of  the  Societies,  but  a  recommendation  to  publish  a 
joint  missionary  periodical  was  rejected. 

Another  recommendation  was  adopted  to  appoint  a  com- 
mittee of  nine,  to  consider  the  matter  of  district  secretaryships  of 
the  Societies,  and  the  relations  of  collection  agencies. 

This  was  a  most  notable  meeting.  It  had  a  marked  influence 
upon  the  growing  desire  for  coordination  and  orderly  pro- 
cedure. It  is  claimed  that  from  this  meeting,  and  from  the  report 
presented  by  Mr.  Greene,  dates  the  denominational  movement 
resulting  in  the  formation  of  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention. 

(7)  In  December,  1901,  in  New  York  City,  there  was  held  an 
important  conference  of  the  executive  boards  and  committees 
of  the  Societies,  in  accordance  with  a  recommendation  adopted 
at  Springfield.  At  this  conference,  among  the  questions  dis- 
cussed was,  "  What  Changes,  if  Any,  Are  Desirable  and  Feasible 
in  our  Denominational  Work?  "  A  committee  was  also  appointed 
to  take  into  consideration  the  matter  of  the  relations  of  the  col- 
lection agencies  of  the  Societies.  It  was  voted  to  submit  the 
methods  involved  in  the  operation  of  the  several  Societies  to  a 
general  meeting  of  the  Societies  to  be  held  in  St.  Paul. 


6  A   MANUAL  OF  THE   NORTHERN   BAPTIST   CONVENTION 

(8)  In  May,  1902,  at  the  Anniversaries  in  St.  Paul,  Minn., 
resolutions  offered  by  Dr.  Lemuel  Moss,  at  a  meeting  of  the 
American  Baptist  Missionary  Union,  were  almost  unanimously 
adopted,  providing  for  a  committee  of  fifteen  persons  who  were 
to  ascertain  whether  there  was  any  lack  of  proper  adjustment 
and  cooperation  between  the  three  Societies,  including  organiza- 
tions associated  with  them,  as  to  fields  of  labor,  collecting  and 
other  agencies,  and  methods  of  work,  and  whether  there  could  be 
an  improvement  in  the  mutual  relations  of  these  agencies.    These 
resolutions  were  also  adopted  by  the  American  Baptist  Home 
Mission  Society  and  the  American  Baptist  Publication  Society. 

The  committee  appointed  at  the  mid-year  conference  in  New 
York  City,  in  December,  1901,  reported  that,  "  in  view  of  exist- 
ing conditions,  neither  economy  nor  efficiency  would  be  furthered 
by  the  adoption  of  the  method  of  employing  one  man  to  represent 
the  three  Societies."  At  a  general  conference  of  the  three  So- 
cieties, during  their  Anniversaries  in  St.  Paul,  the  report  of  this 
committee  was  brought  up  for  consideration,  and  a  motion  to 
appoint  one  district  secretary  to  represent  the  three  Societies  in 
a  given  territory  was  defeated  by  a  vote  of  127  for  it,  to  135 
against  it.  The  whole  matter  was  then  referred  to  the  com- 
mittee of  fifteen  provided  for  in  the  resolution  offered  by 
Doctor  Moss. 

At  the  same  general  conference  of  the  three  Societies,  the 
publication  of  one  missionary  magazine  was  also  considered,  and 
after  opposition  to  such  a  consolidation  of  missionary  magazines, 
it  was  voted  to  appoint  a  committee  to  investigate  and  report  upon 
the  matter. 

(9)  In  May,   1903,  at  the  Anniversaries  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
the  Committee  of  Fifteen  appointed  the  previous  year  at  St.  Paul, 
reported  that  consolidation  of  the  three  Societies  was  neither 
practical  nor  desirable,  and  left  matters  practically  where  they 
were.     However,  their  report  resulted  in  the  appointment  of  a 
Committee  of  Conference,  consisting  of  nine  persons,  ".to  which 
all  matters  of  controversy  between  the  missionary  Societies  should 
be  referred,  and  which  should  have  authority  to  settle  such  con- 
troversies in  the  name  of  the  denomination."     This  committee 
has  had  no  matter  brought  before  it,  and  indeed  has  had  no  ex- 
istence since  the  year  expired  for  which  it  was  appointed.    No  at- 


HISTORICAL   PREFACE  7 

tention  has  been  paid  to  it,  and  no  appointments  have  been  made 
to  membership  upon  it  since  the  Anniversaries  that  created  it. 

(10)  In  May,  1904,  at  the  Anniversaries  in  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
there  was  another  general  denominational  meeting  at  which,  how- 
ever, no  opportunity  was  given  to  discuss  general  denominational 
matters.  At  this  meeting,  a  committee  was  appointed  to  repre- 
sent the  Baptists  of  the  North,  in  cooperation  with  other  com- 
mittees, in  a  proposed  Baptist  World  Congress  to  be  held  in 
London.  This  Congress  met  in  1905  and  was  not  only  sugges- 
tive, but  decidedly  helpful  to  the  movement  for  denominational 
solidarity.  The  same  effect  was  produced  by  the  formation  of 
the  General  Convention  of  the  Baptists  of  North  America,  in 
St.  Louis  in  May,  1905. 

(n)  In  September,  1906,  the  Chicago  Baptist  Association, 
after  listening  to  a  notable  paper,  entitled  "  An  Awakening  Con- 
sciousness of  Denominational  Unity,  What  Does  it  Demand  ? " 
adopted  the  following  resolution: 

For  years  there  has  been  a  growing  belief  among  our  churches  that 
there  should  be  more  coherence  in  our  missionary  work,  and  especially 
that  our  Baptist  Anniversaries  should  be  made  more  helpful  to  denom- 
inational unity.  The  splendid  work  now  carried  on  by  our  several  mis- 
sionary Societies  ought  to  be  more  widely  extended ;  and  there  should 
be  some  platform  from  which  may  be  voiced  the  sentiments  of  the  de- 
nomination upon  movements  and  policies  which  concern  the  denomina- 
tion as  a  whole,  and  are  not  germane  to  the  work  of  any  one  of  our 
present  Societies  exclusively. 

In  view  of  the  wide-spread  dissatisfaction  with  present  arrangements 
for  conducting  our  Baptist  Anniversaries,  dissatisfaction  which  in  no 
degree  concerns  the  honored  leaders  of  our  denominational  Societies, 
but  which  concerns  arrangements  and  policies  and  precedents  growing 
out  of  the  nature  of  the  organizations  and  their  history,  therefore, 

Resolved,  That  the  Chicago  Baptist  Association,  consisting  of  over 
twenty  thousand  Baptists,  put  upon  record  its  earnest  desire  for  greater 
effectiveness  in  the  conduct  of  our  great  annual  meetings,  known  popu- 
larly as  the  Baptist  Anniversaries. 

In  order  that  reasonable  steps  may  be  taken  looking  to  improvements, 
this  association  urges  the  executives  of  our  national  Societies  to  call  a 
joint  meeting  of  all  Societies  in  connection  with  the  Anniversaries  of 
May,  1907;  that  for  this  meeting  a  suitable  program  be  provided  by 
the  executive  boards  of  the  Societies ;  that  provision  be  made  for 
the  permanent  organization  of  a  general  association  or  convention  repre- 
senting all  the  Northern  Baptist  churches;  that  one  of  the  special  func- 


»  A    .MANUAL   OF   THE    NORTHERN    BAPTIST   CONVENTION 

tions  of  this  association  or  convention  shall  be  the  appointment  of  a  repre- 
sentative committee  on  arrangements  to  act  in  connection  with  the  boards 
of  the  Societies  in  unifying  and  improving  the  exercises  of  all  the  meet- 
ings of  all  the  Societies  whose  anniversaries  are  held  each  May;  that  this 
general  association  or  convention  be  so  organized  and  its  objects  be  so 
stated  that  it  shall  voice  to  a  large  degree  the  trend  of  denominational 
sentiment  and  policy  in  such  matters  as  touch  the  welfare  of  all  the 
churches,  leaving  to  the  Societies  the  management  of  the  great  missionary 
and  publication  work  which  they  are  now  conducting. 

Resolved,  That  if  no  steps  are  taken  by  the  boards  of  the  Societies 
before  April  I,  1907,  to  call  such  a  general  or  joint  meeting  as  pro- 
posed, the  moderator  of  this  association  be  empowered  to  appoint  a  com- 
mittee to  act  in  conjunction  with  other  committees  and  representatives 
of  churches  in  this  and  other  States  to  consider  the  advisability  of  calling 
a  general  convention  or  association  for  the  purposes  specified. 

(12)  In  November,  1906,  at  a  meeting  of  the  Baptist  Congress 
in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  a'  conference  was  held  in  which  brethren 
from  different  parts  of  the  country  participated.  It  was  decided 
to  call  the  attention  of  the  general  Societies  to  the  wide-spread 
demand  for  an  organized  expression  of  denominational  unity. 
The  following  petition,  numerously  signed  by  prominent  minis- 
ters and  laymen  from  all  parts  of  the  country,  was  addressed  to 
the  secretaries  of  the  Societies: 

To  the  Corresponding  Secretaries  of 

The  American  Baptist  Missionary  Union;  and 
The  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society;  and 
The  American  Baptist  Publication  Society, 

DEAR  BRETHREN*  :  In  view  of  the  growing  desire,  most  recently  shown 
by  State  Conventions,  district  associations,  and  persons,  for  an  organization 
through  which  Northern  Baptists  may  consider  the  manifold  interests  of 
the  kingdom  of  God,  and  express  a  denominational  opinion  thereon,  we 
respectfully  request  you  to  set  apart,  during  the  Anniversaries  of  the 
Societies  in  1907,  at  least  one  morning  and  afternoon,  as  near  the  middle 
of  the  week  as  possible,  for  a  meeting  to  consider  the  expediency  of 
such  an  organization. 

We  suggest  that  in  your  call  for  this  meeting,  if  you  consent  to  issue 
it,  each  church  be  requested  to  appoint  its  pastor  and  two  delegates,  who 
shall  represent  it  at  this  meeting,  with  power  to  effect  the  organization 
if  found  desirable. 

This  request  is  addressed  to  you  in  order  to  avoid  even  an  apparent 
expression  of  any  unfriendly  attitude  toward  our  heartily  appreciated 
denominational  Societies  or  their  executive  officers. 


HISTORICAL   PREFACE  9 

(13)  December  n,  1906,  in  compliance  with  the  request  of 
those  brethren,  the  following  call  was  issued  for  the  meeting  at 
which  the  Convention  was  provisionally  organized: 

Whereas,  in  various  quarters  a  desire  has  been  expressed  for  a  meeting 
in  connection  with  the  Anniversaries  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  in  1907,  to 
consider  the  question  of  a  general  organization  of  Baptists  as  represented 
in  the  constituencies  of  the  American  Baptist  Missionary  Union,  The  Amer- 
ican Baptist  Home  Mission  Society,  and  the  American  Baptist  Publica- 
tion Society;  the  undersigned  acting  upon  the  request  of  those  interested 
in  the  subject,  and  with  the  approval  of  their  respective  boards,  and  repre- 
senting their  joint  committee  on  the  Anniversaries,  do  hereby  formally 
call  a  meeting  of  those  who  shall  be  entitled  to  membership  in  these 
Societies,  and  of  others  who  shall  be  formally  appointed  by  their  churches 
to  participate  in  the  deliberations,  on  Thursday  evening,  May  16,  and 
Friday  forenoon,  May  17,  at  the  Calvary  Baptist  Church,  Washington, 
D.  C.,  for  the  purpose  of  effecting  a  general  organization,  if  it  shall  be 
deemed  desirable  to  do  so;  and  suggest  that  Thursday  evening,  Rev. 
W.  C.  Bitting,  D.  D.,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  address  the  body  for  fifteen 
minutes  upon  a  motion  to  form  such  an  organization,  to  be  followed 
by  Rev.  A.  J.  Rowland,  D.  D.,  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  in  an  address  of  ten 
minutes  in  seconding  the  motion;  these  to  be  followed  by  general  dis- 
cussion in  which  speakers  shall  be  limited  to  five  minutes  each;  and  that 
Friday  forenoon  be  devoted  to  the  consideration  of  the  report  of  the 
committee  on  organization  with  an  address  of  twenty  mintues  by  Prof. 
Shailer  Mathews  on  the  functions  of  such  an  organization,  followed  by 
general  discussion,  speakers  being  limited  to  five  minutes  each. 

H.  L.  MOREHOUSE, 
T.  S.  BARBOUR, 
A.  J.  ROWLAND, 

Committee. 

In  accordance  with  the  arrangements  indicated  above,  the  meet- 
ing was  held  in  the  Calvary  Baptist  Church,  Washington,  D.  C., 
on  the  evening  of  May  16,  1907.  The  following  was  unanimously 
adopted : 

Resolved,  That  we,  representatives  of  Baptist  churches,  in  convention 
assembled,  do  hereby  declare  our  belief  in  the  independence  of  the  local 
church,  in  the  advisory  and  representative  nature  of  the  local  and  State 
associations,  and  our  loyalty  to  the  work  of  our  missionary  and  educa- 
tional Societies;  and, 

Resolved,  That  we  do  also  affirm  our  conviction  that,  in  view  of  the 
growth  of  our  country  and  denomination,  there  is  further  need  of  a 


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general  body  that  shall  serve  the  common  interests  of  our  entire  brother- 
hood, as  the  individual  church,  the  district  and  State  associations  min- 
ister to  the  interests  of  their  several  constituencies;  and, 

Resolved,  That  we  do  now  proceed  to  organize  ourselves  into  such  a 
body. 

It  was  also 

Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  fifteen  brethren  be  appointed  to  draft 
a  plan  of  organization ;  to  which  committee  the  matters  now  under  dis- 
cussion shall  be  referred  for  further  consideration;  said  committee  to 
report  at  the  session  to-morrow  morning. 

This  committee  consisted  of  L.  C.  Barnes,  Massachusetts ;  C.  C» 
Barry,  Massachusetts ;  W.  C.  Bitting,  Missouri ;  J.  W.  Brougher, 
California;  Walter  Galley,  Pennsylvania;  L.  A.  Crandall,  Minne- 
sota; J.  S.  Dickerson,  Illinois;  J.  M.  English,  Massachusetts; 
B.  A.  Greene,  Illinois;  F.  P.  Haggard,  Massachusetts;  Shailer 
Mathews,  Illinois;  H.  L.  Morehouse,  New  York;  C.  H.  Moss, 
Massachusetts;  A.  J.  Rowland,  Pennsylvania;  W.  S.  Shallen- 
berger,  District  of  Columbia. 

The  next  morning  the  committee  reported  provisional  Pre- 
amble, Constitution,  and  By-laws.  These  were  adopted  and  made 
permanent  at  the  meeting  in  Oklahoma  City,  Okla.,  May  21- 
27,  1908. 


II 

INTRODUCTION 


INTRODUCTION 


THE  Baptist  churches  in  the  United  States  have  a  long  history — 
as  history  goes  in  our  republic — and  have  reached  a  very  large 
membership.  Events  which  need  not  be  discussed  here  led  to 
an  organization  of  the  churches  in  Southern  States  quite  sepa- 
rate from  those  in  the  rest  of  the  Union.  The  Southern  Baptist 
Convention  is  an  efficient  and  forceful  agency  of  its  constituent 
churches,  intelligently  planned  and  wisely  administered. 

For  many  years  no  such  organization  was  created  in  the 
Northern  States.  Missionary  Societies  had  grown  up,  however, 
the  Foreign  Missionary  Society  dating  from  1814  and  the  Home 
Society  from  1832,  and  a  Publication  Society  had  been  estab- 
lished in  1824,  and  each  of  these  Societies  had  reached  consider- 
able proportions.  They  were  incorporated  under  the  laws  of 
different  States :  the  Foreign  Society  in  Massachusetts,  the  Home 
Society  in  New  York,  and  the  Publication  Society  in  Pennsylvania. 
Legally  each  was  an  independent  entity,  and  none  of  them,  there- 
fore, was  under  any  legal  control  by  the  churches.  Still,  each 
depended  on  the  churches  for  a  large  part  of  its  financial  sup- 
port, notably  the  two  missionary  Societies,  and  of  course  their 
membership  and  also  their  large  individual  gifts  and  bequests 
came  from  members  of  the  churches.  The  annual  meetings  of 
the  Societies,  which  were  held  simultaneously  in  May,  there- 
fore, were  real  gatherings  of  the  churches,  at  least  of  those  in- 
terested in  the  common  purposes  embodied  in  the  Societies,  and 
were  the  only  form  in  which  common  interchange  and  common 
action  of  the  churches  in  the  Northern  States  could  occur  at  all. 
But  there  was  no  organ  by  which  the  churches  could  act  as  a 
unit  to  express  their  united  views  or  their  united  wishes.  The 
Southern  Baptist  Convention  had  no  counterpart  in  the  Northern 
States. 

It  was  only  natural  that  definite  organization  of  the  Baptist 
churches  for  common  purposes  was  slow  in  coming.  Individ- 
ualism is  at  the  heart  of  Baptist  polity,  individualism  of  the  local 

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church — democracy,  and  of  the  member  in  the  church — soul 
liberty.  A  Baptist  church  is  a  complete  unit  in  itself,  and  it  would 
not  be  a  Baptist  church  if  it  recognized  any  ecclesiastical  superior. 
It  is  not  surprising,  therefore,  that  any  attempt  at  very  large 
organization  should  be  looked  at  askance.  An  association  is 
a  neighborhood.  A  State  Convention  is  in  reach.  A  grouping 
of  States  for  organization  purposes  looks  too  much  like  the 
General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  not  to  win  sharp 
scrutiny  from  Baptist  churches. 

Indeed,  one  cannot  dwell  too  much  on  the  independence  of 
these  churches.  Not  merely  do  they  recognize  no  superior 
authority  in  ecclesiastical  organization,  but  so  far  as  spiritual 
matters  are  concerned  they  are  jealously  independent  of  the 
State.  They  manage  their  secular  affairs,  of  course,  in  strict 
accordance  with  law.  But  so  far  are  they  from  recognizing 
the  right  of  the  State  to  a  voice  in  religious  matters  that  it  has 
been  a  definite  Baptist  principle  to  decline  State  aid  in  the  form 
of  appropriations  for  any  of  their  undertakings.  The  power  of 
giving  or  withholding  funds  too  often  leads  to  influence  on 
policies. 

Individualism  of  members  within  the  church  is  quite  as  pro- 
nounced as  the  independence  of  the  local  church  from  external 
control.  The  church  is  essentially  democratic :  all  church  officers, 
pastor,  deacons,  finance  committee,  are  elected  by  the  church- 
members.  But  democracy  should  be  based  on  intelligence.  It  is 
fundamentally  for  that  reason  that  the  Baptist  churches  insist 
on  an  adult  membership,  the  age  at  least  of  comprehension  of  the 
issues  involved  being  a  condition  of  admission. 

With  this  intense  individualism  in  the  churches,  then,  on  the 
one  hand,  and  at  the  same  time  with  the  lack  of  coordination  and 
responsibility  to  the  churches  on  the  part  of  the  great  Societies, 
on  the  other  hand,  there  was  presented  to  the  Baptist  people  in 
the  Northern  States  a  very  puzzling  and  difficult  question  of  or- 
ganization. Democracy,  it  is  often  held,  is  the  antithesis  of  ef- 
ficiency. Is  it  possible  for  a  great  body  of  Christian  people  so 
loosely  held  together  as  are  the  Baptists  so  to  plan  and  administer 
their  common  affairs  as  to  save  duplications,  to  save  waste,  to 
multiply  efficiency,  and  to  secure  real  responsibility  of  the  agencies 
to  the  churches  which  form  the  real  constituent  body? 


INTRODUCTION*  15 

For  years  these  possibilities  were  matters  of  discussion  in  the 
press  and  on  the  forum.  Finally  in  1907,  at  a  meeting  called  and 
held  in  Washington,  D.  C,  a  temporary  organization  was  effected, 
and  a  plan  of  permanent  character  was  submitted  to  the  churches 
for  consideration  and  action  at  a  delegate  convention  to  be  held 
the  following  year,  in  connection  with  the  May  Anniversaries. 

This  convention  was  duly  held  at  Oklahoma  City,  Oklahoma, 
in  May,  1908.  For  the  first  time  a  body  representing  the  Baptist 
churches  of  the  Northern  States  was  convened,  and  was  in- 
structed to  act  on  the  plan  of  organization  which  had  been  sub- 
mitted to  the  churches  the  previous  year. 

The  provisional  constitution  and  by-laws  were  adopted  and 
the  Northern  Baptist  Convention  was  duly  constituted. 

The  vital  matter  before  the  Convention  was  its  relationship 
to  the  existing  missionary  Societies.  These  Societies  were  legal 
corporations,  wholly  independent  of  one  another  and  of  the  Con- 
vention, and  with  vested  property  rights.  It  seemed  highly 
desirable  that  there  should  be  an  organic  union  between  the 
Societies  and  the  Convention.  But  such  union  was  certainly 
impracticable  to  accomplish  at  that  time,  and  quite  probably  never 
could  be  brought  about  at  all.  Still,  neither  the  Convention  nor 
the  Societies  could  reach  their  full  efficiency  unless  a  mutual 
relationship  could  be  devised  which  would  make  it  possible  for 
the  Convention,  representing  the  Baptist  churches  for  all  pur- 
poses, to  coordinate  the  work  of  the  various  missionary  Societies, 
each  of  which  was  really  the  agent  of  the  same  churches  for  a 
specific  purpose.  Could  this  puzzling  problem  be  solved  ? 

With  mutual  good  will  such  difficulties  vanish  away — and  they 
vanished  at  Oklahoma  City.  A  plan  was  presented  which  required 
no  change  in  the  constitution — the  work  of  a  year — but  only  of 
the  by-laws,  which  could  be  changed  immediately;  and  which 
raised  no  question  of  the  legal  basis  of  the  Societies,  but  merely 
established  a  contractual  relationship  between  those  corporations 
and  the  Convention — a  relationship,  however,  for  all  practical 
purposes  as  effective  as  organic  union.  By  the  terms  of  the  pro- 
posed contract  the  Societies  could  become  cooperating  Societies 
of  the  Convention,  with  specific  mutual  obligations.  A  Finance 
Committee  of  the  Convention  was  provided,  with  powers  which 
made  it  the  directing  and  coordinating  agency  for  the  Convention 


l6         A    MANUAL  OF   THE    NORTHERN    BAPTIST   CONVENTION 

and  for  all  the  cooperating  Societies.  The  by-laws  were  adopted, 
the  agreements  were  made  at  once,  and  thus  the  Northern  Bap- 
tist Convention  became  a  vital  force. 

At  the  second  annual  meeting  of  the  Convention,  held  at  Port- 
land, Oregon,  in  1909,  the  Committee  on  Legal  Relations  of  the 
Societies  to  the  Convention,  authorized  at  the  first  annual  meet- 
ing, and  consisting  of  five  eminent  lawyers,  reported  a  further 
development  of  the  plan  of  organization,  with  the  addition  of  new 
by-laws,  providing  for  the  legal  incorporation  of  the  Convention 
and  for  a  uniform  plan  of  organization  for  all  the  cooperating 
Societies.  This  report  was  adopted,  and  thus  the  Convention  and 
its  Societies  became  a  smoothly  working  mechanism,  with  all 
its  parts  in  a  definite  relation  to  one  another  and  to  the  whole. 

These  formative  years  of  the  Convention  were  intensely  in- 
teresting to  those  who  took  part  on  behalf  of  the  churches,  and 
the  loyal  support  which  has  been  given  by  the  Societies  and  by 
the  churches  bids  fair  to  make  the  Convention  in  the  years  to 
come  a  source  of  new  power  to  the  common  cause  to  which  all 
are  devoted. 

HARRY  PRATT  JUDSON. 

CHICAGO,  FEBRUARY  18,  1918. 


HI 
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ACT  OF  INCORPORATION 

Chapter  384  of  the  Laws  of  the  State  of  New  York  of  1910. 
Became  a  Law  June  6,  1910. 

AN  ACT  TO  INCORPORATE  THE  NORTHERN  BAPTIST  CONVENTION 

SECTION  i.  All  persons  who  are  now  or  who  hereafter  may 
become  members  of  the  organization  called  the  Northern  Baptist 
Convention,  formed  in  the  city  of  Washington,  in  the  District 
of  Columbia,  in  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  seven,  are  hereby 
constituted  a  body  corporate  with  the  name  "  Northern  Baptist 
Convention,"  and  under  that  name  shall  have  perpetual  succes- 
sion and  shall  have  the  right  to  purchase  or  to  acquire  by  gift, 
devise,  bequest,  or  otherwise,  and  to  sell,  convey,  or  otherwise  dis- 
pose of,  any  real  or  personal  property. 

SEC.  2.  The  object  of  the  corporation  shall  be  to  give  ex- 
pression to  the  opinions  of  its  constituency  upon  moral,  religious, 
and  denominational  matters,  and  to  promote  denominational 
unity  and  efficiency  in  efforts  for  the  evangelization  of  the  world. 

SEC.  3.  The  corporation,  at  any  time  it  shall  determine  so  to 
do,  may  elect  or  appoint  such  officers  and  may  adopt  such  by-laws 
or  regulations  in  relation  to  its  organization,  to  the  management, 
disposition,  and  sale  of  its  real  or  personal  property,  to  the  duties 
and  powers  of  its  officers,  and  to  the  management  and  conduct  of 
its  corporate  business  and  affairs  as  it  shall  think  proper,  pro- 
vided such  by-laws  or  regulations  are  not  inconsistent  with  the 
laws  of  the  United  States  or  this  State. 

SEC.  4.  Meetings  of  the  corporation  may  be  held  at  such  time 
or  times  and  at  such  place  or  places  in  the  United  States  as  the 
corporation  may  determine  from  time  to  time. 

SEC.  5.    This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 

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DECLARATION 

The  Northern  Baptist  Convention  declares  its  belief  in  the  in- 
dependence of  the  local  church,  and  in  the  purely  advisory  nature 
of  all  denominational  organizations  composed  of  representatives  of 
churches.  It  believes  also  that,  in  view  of  the  growth  of  the  Bap- 
tist denomination  and  its  extension  throughout  our  country,  there 
is  need  for  an  organization  to  serve  the  common  interests  of  the 
entire  denomination  as  State  and  district  organizations  serve  their 
respective  constituencies. 


BY-LAWS 

ARTICLE  I 

MEMBERSHIP 

SECTION  i.  The  Convention  shall  be  composed  of  accredited 
delegates  appointed  as  follows : 

(a)  Any  Baptist  church  in  the  United  States  may  appoint  one 
delegate,  and  one  additional  delegate  for  every  one  hundred 
members. 

(b)  Any  Baptist  State  Convention  may  appoint  ten  delegates, 
and  one  additional  delegate  for  every  ten  District  Associations  in- 
cluded in  it,  above  the  first  ten. 

SEC.  2.  Accredited  officers  and  members  of  Boards  of  Man- 
agers of  cooperating  organizations  shall  be  delegates  ex  officio. 

The  accredited  officers  and  members  of  the  Boards  of  Managers 
of  the  Woman's  Missionary  Societies  auxiliary  to  or  cooperating 
with  the  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society  or  the  Amer- 
ican Baptist  Foreign  Mission  Society  shall  be  delegates  ex  officio. 

Officers  and  members  of  committees  of  the  Convention  during 
their  terms  of  service  shall  be  delegates  ex  officio. 

ARTICLE  II 

OFFICERS 

SECTION  I.  The  officers  shall  be  a  President,  a  First  Vice- 
president,  a  Second  Vice-president,  a  Corresponding  Secretary, 


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a     Recording     Secretary,     a     Statistical     Secretary,     and     a 
Treasurer. 

SEC.  2.  The  President  shall  preside  at  all  meetings  of  the  Con- 
vention and  of  the  Executive  Committee,  and  shall  exercise  a 
general  supervision  over  the  affairs  of  the  Convention. 

SEC.  3.  In  the  case  of  the  absence  of  the  President  or  his  in- 
ability to  serve,  his  duties  shall  be  performed  by  the  Vice-president 
in  attendance  who  is  first  in  numerical  order. 

SEC.  4.  The  Corresponding  Secretary  shall  conduct  the  corre- 
spondence of  the  Convention,  shall  send  notices  to  the  members  of 
the  Executive  Committee  of  the  times  and  places  of  its  meetings, 
shall  inform  the  chairman  of  each  committee  of  the  names  of 
its  members  and  of  the  purpose  for  which  it  was  appointed,  and 
shall  perform  such  duties  as  the  Executive  Committee  may 
direct. 

SEC.  5.  The  Recording  Secretary  shall  keep  a  record  of  the 
proceedings  of  the  Convention  in  a  book  provided  for  that  pur- 
pose. 

SEC.  6.  The  Statistical  Secretary  shall  collect,  tabulate,  and 
prepare  for  publication  in  the  Convention  Annual  all  statistics  re- 
lating to  the  work  of  the  Convention  down  to  the  first  day  of 
October  preceding  the  publication  of  the  Annual. 

Should  the  officers  of  any  State  Convention  fail  to  furnish  the 
statistics  of  its  own  State  to  the  Statistical  Secretary,  it  will  be 
the  duty  of  the  latter  to  collect  such  statistics  from  any  available 
source. 

SEC.  7.  The  Treasurer  shall  receive  all  moneys  belonging  to  the 
Convention,  keep  an  accurate  account  thereof  and  of  the  sources 
from  which  they  were  derived,  pay  them  out  on  the  direction 
of  the  Convention  or  of  the  Executive  Committee,  and  at  each 
annual  meeting  make  a  written  financial  report. 

SEC.  8.  Each  officer  shall  be  elected  by  ballot  and  shall  serve 
from  the  close  of  the  meeting  of  the  Convention  at  which  he  is 
elected  to  the  close  of  the  next  annual  meeting,  and  until  his  suc- 
cessor is  elected. 

SEC.  9.  Any  member  of  a  Baptist  church  in  the  United  States 
is  eligible  to  any  office  or  to  serve  on  any  committee,  except  where 
otherwise  provided. 


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ARTICLE  III 

MEETINGS 

SECTION  i.  The  Convention  shall  meet  annually  on  the  third 
Wednesday  in  May,  unless  for  some  special  reason  some  other 
time  shall  be  fixed  by  the  Executive  Committee  in  conference  with 
the  Boards  of  Managers  of  the  cooperating  organizations. 

SEC.  2.  Each  delegate  to  an  annual  meeting  shall  pay  a  regis- 
tration fee  of  one  dollar,  and  on  the  payment  of  fifty  cents  in  addi- 
tion shall  be  entitled  to  receive  a  copy  of  the  Annual. 

ARTICLE  IV 

COMMITTEES 

SECTION  i.  (a)  There  shall  be  an  Executive  Committee  elected 
by  ballot,  and  composed  of  the  officers  and  former  presidents  of 
the  Convention,  and  thirty  others,  of  whom  at  least  fifteen  shall 
be  laymen.  Of  the  thirty  first  elected,  ten  shall  serve  for  three 
years,  ten  for  two  years,  and  ten  for  one  year ;  and  thereafter  there 
shall  be  elected  annually  ten  to  serve  for  three  years.  Vacancies 
caused  by  the  death,  resignation,  or  refusal  to  act  of  any  of  the 
thirty  may  be  filled  by  the  remaining  members  of  the  committee. 

(b)  No  one,  other  than  an  officer  or  a  former  president  of  the 
Convention,  shall  be  eligible  to  membership  in  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee after  service  thereon  for  six  consecutive  years,  until  the 
expiration  of  one  year  after  the  termination  of  such  service. 

(c)  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  committee  to  make  arrange- 
ments for  the  meetings  of  the  Convention,  and  to  care  for  its  in- 
terests between  the  meetings. 

(d)  No  appeals  for  money  shall  be  made  and  no  collections 
shall  be  taken  at  the  meetings  of  the  Convention  which  have  not 
been  approved  by  the  Executive  Committee. 

SEC.  2.  (a)  There  shall  be  a  Finance  Committee  of  nine,  a 
majority  of  whom  shall  be  laymen. 

(b)  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  committee  to  prepare  and  pre- 
sent to  the  Convention  at  each  annual  meeting  a  budget  based  on 
the  budgets  submitted  by  the  Executive  Committee  and  by  the 
cooperating  organizations. 


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(c)  In  case  of  an  emergency  arising  between  the  annual  meet- 
ings of  the  Convention,  the  committee,  by  the  majority  vote  of  all 
its  members,  may  approve  the  incurring  of  indebtedness  by  a  co- 
operating organization.  Should  such  approval  be  given,  the  com- 
mittee shall  report  its  action  with  the  reasons  therefor  to  the 
Convention  at  its  next  annual  meeting. 

SEC.  3.  (a)  There  shall  be  an  Apportionment  Committee  ap- 
pointed at  each  annual  meeting.  It  shall  be  composed  of  a  repre- 
sentative from  each  of  the  following  bodies :  The  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  the  Convention,  the  Board  of  Education,  each  of  the 
cooperating  organizations,  a  city  church,  a  rural  church,  and  a 
State  Apportionment  Committee,  together  with  a  District  Secre- 
tary of  a  cooperating  organization  and  an  executive  officer  of  a 
State  Convention. 

(b)  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  committee: 

1.  To  divide  among  the  States  represented  in  the  Convention 
the  respective  amounts  to  be  raised  as  specified  in  the  budget 
approved  by  the  Convention,  and  to  communicate  to  the  Appor- 
tionment Committee  of  each  State  the  amount  apportioned  to  it; 

2.  To  appoint  an  Apportionment   Committee   for  any   State 
where  no  such  committee  is  appointed ; 

3.  To  employ  such  agents  and  methods  and  to  take  such  other 
action  to  carry  the  apportionment  into  effect  as  to  it  may  seem 
wise; 

4.  To  divide  ratably  among  the  beneficiaries  of  the  budget  the 
expenses  incurred  in  the  performance  of  the  duties  of  the  com- 
mittee. 

SEC.  4.  There  shall  be  a  Committee  on  Reports,  to  serve  from 
the  adjournment  of  each  annual  meeting  of  the  Convention  until 
the  adjournment  of  its  next  annual  meeting.  All  reports  of  co- 
operating organizations  shall  be  submitted  to  the  committee  as 
early  as  practicable  before  the  next  meeting  of  the  Convention, 
at  which  the  committee  shall  present  its  report  in  writing. 

SEC.  5.  There  shall  be  a  Committee  on  Enrolment  consisting  of 
five  persons,  which  shall  be  appointed  at  the  first  session  of  each 
annual  meeting.  To  this  committee  shall  be  presented  the  creden- 
tials of  delegates  to  the  Convention,  and  the  committee  shall  pre- 
pare from  these  credentials  and  shall  report  to  the  Convention 
a  roll  of  delegates. 


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SEC.  6.  There  shall  be  a  Committee  on  Order  of  Business, 
which  shall  report  each  day  to  the  Convention  a  proposed  order 
of  business  for  the  next  day. 

SEC.  7.  There  shall  be  a  Committee  on  Nominations  of  Officers 
and  for  vacancies  in  the  Executive  Committee.  No  one  shall  be 
a  member  of  the  committee  who  is  a  salaried  executive  officer 
or  an  employee  of  a  cooperating  or  .of  an  affiliating  organization 
other  than  a  pastor,  or  who  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Man- 
agers of  a  cooperating  organization,  or  a  member  of  the  Execu- 
tive Committee  of  the  Convention,  unless  under  the  authority 
of  a  by-law  he  shall  be  appointed  a  member  of  the  Committee  on 
Nominations  without  the  right  to  vote. 

SEC.  8.  There  shall  be  a  Committee  on  Selection  of  a  Place 
for  the  Next  Annual  Meeting,  which  shall  report  before  the  ad- 
journment of  the  last  session  of  the  Convention,  at  which  the 
committee  is  appointed. 

SEC.  9.  There  shall  be  a  Committee  on  Resolutions  which  shall 
consider  and  report  upon  all  resolutions  referred  to  it  by  the 
Convention,  and  may  originate  and  report  others.  A  motion  to 
refer  to  this  committee  shall  not  be  debatable.  The  final  report 
of  the  committee  shall  be  presented  not  later  than  at  the  morning 
session  of  the  last  day  on  which  the  Convention  meets.  After 
the  final  report  shall  have  been  presented,  no  proposed  resolution 
referring  to  a  subject  not  included  in  the  report  shall  be  referred 
to  the  committee,  but,  without  debate,  shall  be  sent  to  the  Execu- 
tive Committee  for  submission  to  the  Committee  on  Resolutions 
at  the  next  annual  meeting  of  the  Convention.  This  by-law  may 
be  suspended  by  a  three-fourths  vote. 

SEC.  10.  There  shall  be  a  Law  Committee  consisting  of  six  per- 
sons. It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  committee  to  consider  and  report 
upon  all  matters  referred  to  it  by  the  Convention  or  the  Executive 
Committee. 

SEC.  ii.  There  shall  be  a  Committee  on  City  Missions  consist- 
ing of  nine  persons.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  committee  to 
study  the  questions  related  to  cooperation  between  city  mission  or- 
ganizations and  State  Conventions,  and  the  cooperating  organiza- 
tions of  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention,  and  also  all  other 
general  questions  related  to  city  mission  work  throughout  the 
country. 


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SEC.  12.  There  shall  be  a  Committee  on  Baptist  Brotherhood 
consisting  of  twelve  persons.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  com- 
mittee to  further  the  organization  of  men  in  Baptist  churches  for 
study,  fellowship,  and  service,  and  to  consider  all  questions 
related  thereto. 

SEC.  13.  There  shall  be  a  Committee  on  State  Conventions 
consisting  of  nine  persons.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  committee 
to  review  the  work  of  the  State  Conventions  that  are'  affiliating 
organizations  and  to  consider  all  questions  concerning  such  Con- 
ventions and  their  relation  to  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention. 

SEC.  14.  There  shall  be  a  Committee  on  Social  Service  consist- 
ing of  twelve  persons.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  committee  to 
study  social  conditions  and  needs,  to  ascertain  the  activities  of 
Baptist  churches  in  the  field  of  social  service,  to  organize  and 
enlist  Baptists  in  practical  and  definite  lines  of  community  ser- 
vice in  city  and  country,  to  cooperate  with  similar  agencies  of 
other  religious  bodies,  and  from  time  to  time  to  report  its  findings 
and  recommendations  through  the  religious  press. 

SEC.  15.  There  shall  be  a  Committee  on  Religious  Education 
consisting  of  nine  persons.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  com- 
mittee to  study  the  educational  needs  of  the  local  church,  and  in 
cooperation  with  the  American  Baptist  Publication  Society  to 
prepare  educational  courses  for  the  promotion  of  the  intelligent 
growth  of  the  church,  and  for  its  symmetrical  development  in  its 
varied  relations  to  the  community,  to  the  outspread  of  Chris- 
tianity, and  to  the  world  at  large. 

SEC.  16.  There  shall  be  a  Committee  on  Young  People's  Work 
consisting  of  nine  persons.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  committee, 
in  cooperation  with  the  American  Baptist  Publication  Society,  to 
superintend  the  organization  of  young  people's  work,  and  to 
foster  inspirational  and  educational  activities  in  connection  there- 
with. 

SEC.  17.  There  shall  be  a  Committee  on  Evangelism  consisting 
of  nine  persons.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  committee  to  study 
the  subject  of  evangelism  with  a  view  to  discover  and  suggest 
the  most  effective  means  for  promoting  it,  and  in  cooperation 
with  the  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society  to  disseminate 
evangelistic  literature,  and  in  all  other  practical  ways  to  encour- 
age and  promote  personal  evangelism,  organized  evangelism  in 


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the  local  church,  and  cooperative  evangelism  among  the 
churches. 

SEC.  18.  There  shall  be  a  Committee  on  the  Coordination  of 
Baptist  Bodies  Using  Foreign  Languages  consisting  of  eighteen 
persons.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  committee  to  study  and 
report  on  the  best  methods  for  coordinating  Baptist  bodies  using 
foreign  languages  with  one  another  and  also  with  other  Baptist 
bodies,  and  also  to  report  such  other  facts  and  such  statistics  re- 
lated to  the  work  of  the  committee  as  to  it  may  seem  proper. 

SEC.  19.  Of  the  members  first  appointed  on  the  Finance  Com- 
mittee, the  Apportionment  Committee,  the  Law  Committee,  the 
Committees  on  City  Missions,  on  Baptist  Brotherhood,  on  State 
Conventions,  on  Social  Service,  on  Religious  Education,  on 
Young  People's  Work,  on  Evangelism,  and  on  the  Coordination 
of  Baptist  Bodies  Using  Foreign  Languages,  one-third  shall  serve 
for  three  years,  one-third  for  two  years,  and  one-third  for  one 
year,  and  thereafter  there  shall  be  appointed  annually  one-third 
of  the  number  of  members  to  serve  for  three  years.  The  members 
of  these  committees  shall  be  appointed  by  the  President  on  the 
nomination  of  the  Executive  Committee. 

SEC.  20.  The  Executive  Committee,  the  Finance  Committee, 
the  Apportionment  Committee,  the  Committees  on  Reports,  on 
City  Missions,  on  Baptist  Brotherhood,  on  State  Conventions, 
on  Social  Service,  on  Religious  Education,  on  Young  People's 
Work,  on  Evangelism,  and  on  the  Coordination  of  Baptist  Bodies 
Using  Foreign  Languages  shall  report  in  writing  at  each  annual 
meeting  of  the  Convention. 

SEC.  21.  The  Committees  on  Reports,  on  Order  of  Business, 
on  Nominations,  on  Selection  of  a  Place  for  the  Next  Annual 
Meeting,  and  on  Resolutions  shall  be  composed  of  one  of  the 
delegates  from  each  State  to  be  nominated  by  such  delegates  and 
elected  by  the  Convention  at  the  second  session  of  each  annual 
meeting.  A  vacancy  in  any  one  of  these  committees  shall  be 
filled  by  the  delegates  from  the  unrepresented  State. 

SEC.  22.  No  one  shall  be  a  member  of  any  committee  men- 
tioned in  Section  21  unless  he  be  a  delegate  from  a  State  whose 
State  Convention  is  an  affiliating  organization. 

SEC.  23.  The  Executive  Committee  shall  appoint  annually  one 
of  its  members,  whose  term  does  not  expire  the  current  year,  to 


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act  as  an  additional  member  of  the  Committee  on  Nominations, 
without  the  right  to  vote. 

SEC.  24.  The  President  shall  appoint  all  committees,  and  shall 
fill  any  vacancy  in  any  committee,  except  when  otherwise  pro- 
vided. 

SEC.  25.  The  word  "  State  "  means  any  State,  Territory,  dis- 
trict, or  dependency  of  the  United  States. 

ARTICLE  V 

COOPERATING  ORGANIZATIONS 

SECTION  i.  On  its  application  and  the  approval  of  the  Conven- 
tion by  a  two-thirds  vote,  any  general  denominational  missionary, 
educational,  or  philanthropic  organization,  whose  constituency 
resides  in  the  States  represented  in  the  Convention,  may  become 
a  cooperating  organization.  v\ 

SEC.  2.    A  cooperating  organization  must  agree: 

(a)  To  insert  in  its  by-laws  a  provision  that  all  accredited 
delegates  to  each  annual  meeting  of  the  Northern  Baptist  Conven- 
tion shall  be  annual  members  of  the  organization ; 

(b)  To  regulate  its  expenditures  in  accordance  with  a  budget 
to  be  annually  approved  by  the  Convention; 

(c)  To  solicit  funds  only  on  the  approval  of  the  Convention, 
or  on  the  approval  of  the  Finance  Committee  given  between  the 
annual  meetings  of  the  Convention  as  provided  by  Article  IV, 
Section  2,  Subdivision  (c) ; 

(d)  To  incur  no  indebtedness  without  the  previous  approval 
of  the  Convention,  or  of  the  Finance  Committee  as  provided  by 
Article  IV,  Section  2,  Subdivision  (c) ; 

(e)  To  submit  its  books  and  accounts  to  the  inspection  of  the 
Finance  Committee;  to  prepare  its  budgets  and  to  make  its 
financial  reports  in  such  form  as  that  committee  shall  request. 

SEC.  3.  The  Convention,  through  its  Executive  and  Finance 
Committees,  will  aid  in  raising  funds  needed  to  carry  on  the  work 
of  each  cooperating  organization. 

SEC.  4.  Cooperation  between  the  Convention  and  a  cooperating 
organization  shall  be  terminated  on  the  expiration  of  a  year  after 
written  notice  of  a  desire  to  terminate  cooperation  shall  have  been 
given  by  one  to  the  other. 


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ARTICLE  VI 

BOARDS 

SECTION  i.  (a)  There  shall  be  a  Board  of  Education,  to  be 
composed  of  twenty-one  persons,  to  be  appointed  by  the  Executive 
Committee.  Of  the  twenty-one  first  appointed,  seven  shall  serve 
for  three  years,  seven  shall  serve  for  two  years,  and  seven  shall 
serve  for  one  year,  and  thereafter  seven  shall  be  appointed  an- 
nually by  the  Executive  Committee  to  serve  for  three  years. 
Vacancies  caused  by  the  death,  resignation,  or  refusal  to  act 
of  any  of  the  twenty-one  may  be  filled  by  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee. 

(b)  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  Board  to  develop  the  educa- 
tional convictions  of  our  churches,  to  make  a  comprehensive  study 
of  our  educational  problems,  and  to  foster  such  denominational 
institutions   and  denominational  ministries  in  other  schools  of 
learning  as  the  Board  may  approve. 

(c)  The  Board  may  adopt  by-laws  for  its  government,  elect 
its  own  officers  and  define  their  duties,  and  shall  report  annually 
to  the  Convention. 

SEC.  2.  To  each  annual  meeting  of  the  Convention  the  Execu- 
tive Committee  shall  present  the  names  of  persons  to  be  appointed 
by  the  Convention  to  fill  such  vacancies  in  the  Board  of  Managers 
of  the  Ministers  and  Missionaries  Benefit  Board  of  the  Northern 
Baptist  Convention  as  shall  exist  at  the  annual  meeting  of  said 
Board. 

ARTICLE  VII 

AFFILIATING  ORGANIZATIONS 

SECTION  I.     On  its  application  and  the  approval  of  the  Con- 
vention any  Baptist  State  Convention  in  any  State  represented 
in  the  Convention  may  become  an  affiliating  organization. 
SEC.  2.    An  affiliating  organization  should  agree : 
(a)  To  adopt  the  following  statement  of  its  objects : 

To  promote  in  the  State  of the  preaching  of  the 

gospel,  ministerial  and  general  education,  the  establishment,  main- 
tenance, and  assistance  of  Baptist  churches  and  Bible  schools,  and 
the  care  of  worthy  pastors,  their  wives  or  widows,  and  their 
dependent  children. 


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To  give  expression  to  the  opinions  of  its  constituency  upon 
moral,  religious,  and  denominational  matters,  to  promote  denom- 
inational unity  and  efficiency  in  efforts  for  the  evangelization  of 
the  world,  to  support  earnestly  the  work  of  cooperating  organiza- 
tions of  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention,  and  by  affiliation  with 
that  Convention  to  promote  its  plans  and  work. 

(b)  To  provide  for  the  promotion  of  these  objects  by  thorough 
and  efficient  organization. 

(c)  To  appoint  an  Apportionment  Committee  whose  duty  it 
shall  be  to  receive  from  the  Apportionment  Committee  of  the 
Northern  Baptist  Convention  the  statement  of  the  amount  ap- 
portioned by  the  latter  to  the  State,  to  add  to  that  amount  the 
sum  adopted  by   the  State   Convention  for  all   other   objects, 
and  to  apportion  the  aggregate  amount  equitably  among  the 
churches  of  the  State  and  to  notify  each  church  of  the  amount 
apportioned  to  it.     District  Secretaries  of  the  organizations  co- 
operating with  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention  and  the  State 
Secretary  shall  be  advisory  members  of  the  State  Apportionment 
Committee. 

(d)  To  employ  such  agents  and  methods  and  to  take  such 
other  action  to  carry  the  apportionment  into  effect  as  to  it  may 
seem  wise. 

ARTICLE  VIII 

MISCELLANEOUS 

SECTION  i.  On  all  ballots  for  officers  and  for  members  of  the 
Executive  Committee  there  shall  be  reserved  a  space  after  the 
name  of  the  nominee  for  each  office,  and  after  the  names  of  the 
nominees  for  the  Executive  Committee,  in  which  spaces  may  be 
inserted  the  name  or  names  of  any  other  person  or  persons  to  be 
voted  for,  as  the  case  may  be. 

SEC.  2.  (a)  When  any  motion  is  pending  before  the  Conven- 
tion, its  consideration  may  be  temporarily  suspended  by  a  motion 
that  a  vote  on  the  subject  shall  be  taken  by  the  delegations  from 
the  States,  and  such  a  motion  shall  be  deemed  carried  when  sup- 
ported by  one-fifth  of  the  delegates  voting;  and  upon  report  of 
the  result  by  States  a  motion  to  concur  shall  be  in  order ;  and  in 
case  it  shall  be  decided  in  the  affirmative,  the  matter  shall  be 
deemed  settled;  but  if  the  Convention  votes  not  to  concur,  the 


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matter  shall  be  dismissed  from  further  consideration  at  that  meet- 
ing of  the  Convention. 

(b)  On  a  vote  by  States,  each  State  shall  be  entitled  to  one 
vote,  and  an  additional  vote  for  every  ten  thousand  members  of 
Baptist  churches  within  the  State  in  affiliation  with  the  Northern 
Baptist  Convention. 

(c)  The  vote  of  each  State  shall  be  determined  by  the  majority 
of  its  delegates  voting. 

(d)  A  motion  to  vote  by  States  shall  be  in  order  at  any  time 
while  a  motion  is  pending,  shall  not  be  debatable,  and  shall  not 
close  debate  on  the  original  motion. 

(e)  For  use  at  each  annual  meeting  the  Statistical  Secretary 
shall  prepare  a  statement  of  the  number  of  votes  to  which  each 
State   shall   be   entitled  according   to   the  best  denominational 
statistics  available.    The  statement  thus  prepared,  when  approved 
by  the  Executive  Committee,  shall  be  authoritative. 

ARTICLE  IX 

AMENDMENTS 

These  By-laws  may  be  amended  at  any  annual  meeting  of  the 
Convention,  either  on  the  recommendation  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee, given  at  a  previous  session  of  the  Convention  at  which 
such  amendment  is  submitted,  or  after  written  notice  of  the  pro- 
posed amendment,  given  at  a  previous  annual  meeting  and  signed 
by  at  least  twenty-five  delegates,  representing  not  less  than  five 
States. 


STANDING  RESOLUTIONS 

DEBATABLE  MOTIONS  IN  WRITING 

Resolved,  That  all  debatable  motions  shall  be  reduced  to  writ- 
ing, and  be  in  the  hands  of  the  Recording  Secretary  before  a 

vote  by  the  Convention. 

(Annual  1913,  pages  i,  24.) 

NOMINATION  AND  ELECTION  OF  COMMITTEES 
Resolved,  That  when  the  time  for  electing  committees  at  the 
first  afternoon  session  is  reached,  a  recess  of  thirty  minutes  shall 


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be  taken  to  allow  the  State  delegations  to  meet,  organize,  and 
nominate  to  the  Convention  the  committeemen  on  the  Committees 
on  Order  of  Business,  on  Nominations,  on  Selection  of  a  Place 
for  the  Next  Annual  Meeting,  on  Resolutions,  and  on  Reports. 
The  members  of  the  Committee  on  Nominations  shall  be  nomi- 
nated by  the  State  delegations  by  ballot. 

That,  at  the  close  of  the  recess,  the  Recording  Secretary  of  the 
Convention  shall  call  the  roll  of  States;  that  each  State  chair- 
man, from  his  place  on  the  floor,  shall  announce  the  names  of 
the  committeemen  nominated  to  the  Convention  (a  list  of  names 
having  previously  been  sent  to  the  Secretary's  table)  ;  and  that 
then  the  Convention  shall  proceed  to  the  election  of  the  commit- 
tees thus  nominated. 

Immediately  after  the  election,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Presi- 
dent to  announce  the  rooms  in  which  the  several  committees  so 
elected  shall  meet  on  adjournment  of  the  session.  The  convener 
of  each  committee  shall  be  the  committeeman  from  the  State 
in  which  the  Convention  is  meeting,  or,  in  his  absence,  the  com- 
mitteeman from  the  State  in  which  the  Convention  met  the  pre- 
vious year.  ,  .  _  n  . 

(Annual  1912,  pages  54,  84,  85.) 

(Annual  1914,  pages  7,  19.) 

PRESENTATION  OF  OUTSIDE  CAUSES 

Resolved,  That  the  presentation  at  meetings  of  the  Convention 
of  causes  other  than  those  relating  to  the  work  of  the  Convention 
and  its  cooperating  organizations  be  permitted  only  upon  recom- 
mendation of  the  Executive  Committee. 

(Annual  1912,  pages  177,  180.) 

PROCEDURE  IN  A  VOTE  BY  STATES 

Resolved,  Whenever  a  vote  by  States  is  ordered,  as  provided  in 
the  By-laws,  either  of  two  undebatable  motions  shall  be  in  order : 

( i )  That  the  debate  now  close,  that  the  Convention  recess  for 
fifteen  minutes  to  allow  the  State  delegations  to  meet  in  their 
designated  places  on  the  floor  of  the  Convention  to  take  the  vote, 


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and  that  at  the  close  of  the  recess  the  vote  be  reported  to  the 
Secretary,  recorded,  and  announced,  or, 

(2)  That  the  vote  by  States  be  reported,  recorded,  and  an- 
nounced at  a  certain  hour  at  some  future  session  of  the  Con- 
vention, that  the  State  delegations  meet  at  the  close  of  this  ses- 
sion of  the  Convention,  in  their  designated  places  on  the  floor, 
and  either  then  and  there  take  their  vote,  or  provide  for  further 
discussion  within  the  delegations  at  their  convenience  at  some 
other  time  and  place,  before  the  hour  of  reporting  the  vote  as 
above  provided. 

In  case  the  second  of  these  motions  should  prevail,  debate  on 
the  main  question  may  continue  at  the  pleasure  of  the  Convention, 
but  a  motion  to  close  the  debate  shall  be  in  order  at  any  time. 

When  the  vote  by  States  has  been  reported,  recorded,  and  an- 
nounced, the  motion  to  concur,  provided  for  in  the  By-laws,  shall 
follow  immediately  without  the  intervention  of  any  other  busi- 
ness and  without  discussion. 

RULES  OF  ORDER 

Resolved,  That,  beginning  with  the  Convention  in  1914, 
"  Robert's  Rules  of  Order  "  be  the  manual  of  parliamentary  prac- 
tice for  the  guidance  of  the  Convention  in  all  matters  of  pro- 
cedure not  prescribed  in  the  By-laws. 

(Annual  1913,  pages  153,  154.) 


IV 

THE  STRUCTURE  OF  THE 
CONVENTION 

By  Hon.  Edward  S.  Clinch 


I 


THE  STRUCTURE  OF  THE 
CONVENTION 


N  the  very  beginning  of  its  existence  the  Convention,  in 
1907,  adopted  a  Preamble  to  declare  why  the  Convention  was 
formed,  what  its  general  functions  were  to  be,  and  its  attitude 
toward  the  local  church  and  all  other  denominational  organiza- 
tions. 

This  Preamble  found  expression  substantially  in  a  Declara- 
tion adopted  in  1910,  which  without  change  has  remained  to  the 
present  time. 

The  Declaration  is : 

The  Northern  Baptist  Convention  declares  its  belief  in  the  independence 
of  the  local  church,  and  in  the  purely  advisory  nature  of  all  denominational 
organizations  composed  of  representatives  of  churches.  It  believes  also 
that,  in  view  of  the  growth  of  the  Baptist  denomination  and  its  exten- 
sion throughout  our  country,  there  is  need  for  an  organization  to  serve 
the  common  interests  of  the  entire  denomination  as  State  and  district 
organizations  serve  their  respective  constituencies. 

By  this  Declaration  the  Convention,  the  greatest  denomina- 
tional organization  in  the  North,  has  committed  itself  to  the 
maintenance  of  the  independence  of  each  Baptist  church,  to  the 
principle  that  no  denominational  organization  has  governmental 
authority  over  any  denominational  body  composed  of  representa- 
tives of  churches,  and  to  the  necessity  for  the  coordination  of  all 
denominational  agencies  in  order  to  secure  a  maximum  of  ef- 
ficiency. At  no  time  since  the  Convention  was  organized  has  it 
infringed  upon  any  part  of  its  Declaration. 

The  Act  of  Incorporation,  the  by-laws,  and  the  seal,  jointly 
and  severally,  confirm  and  safeguard  every  phrase  in  the  Declara- 
tion. 

The  Act  of  Incorporation  confers  upon  the  Convention  the 
power  to  adopt  such  by-laws  in  relation  to  its  organization  and 
the  management  of  its  corporate  business  and  affairs  as  it  shall 

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think  proper,  and  the  by-laws  it  has  adopted  have  been  framed 
with  absolute  loyalty  to  the  Declaration. 

The  control  of  the  Convention  is  given  to  the  churches,  every 
one  of  which  may  send  delegates  in  proportion  to  its  member- 
ship. State  Conventions  and  the  boards  of  managers  of  the  co- 
operating organizations  are  represented  in  the  membership  of 
the  Convention,  but  their  representatives  constitute  a  minority. 

The  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society,  the  Woman's 
American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society,  the  American  Baptist 
Foreign  Mission  Society,  the  Woman's  American  Baptist  For- 
eign Mission  Society,  and  the  American  Baptist  Publication  So- 
ciety are  the  cooperating  organizations  of  the  Convention,  with 
the  privilege  on  the  part  of  each  of  them  and  of  the  Convention 
to  terminate  cooperation  on  the  expiration  of  a  year  after 
notice  by  either  to  the  other  of  a  desire  to  terminate  it.  By  the 
action  of  each  of  the  cooperating  organizations  all  delegates  to 
the  Convention  are  members  of  the  cooperating  organizations, 
and  thus  control  over  the  latter  is  given  to  the  churches  to  the 
same  extent  as  is  control  of  the  Convention,  and  there  is  secured 
the  closest  cooperation  between  the  Convention  and  its  cooperat- 
ing organizations  that  can  be  effected. 

The  Convention  by-laws  provide  also  that  on  its  approval 
any  State  Convention  on  its  application  may  become  an  affiliating 
organization.  Under  this  provision  every  State  Convention  in  the 
Northern  States  has  become  an  affiliating  organization,  and  has 
agreed  to  support  earnestly  and  by  thorough  and  efficient  organ- 
ization to  promote  the  plans  and  work  of  the  cooperating  organ- 
izations of  the  Convention. 

The  Convention  seal  has  upon  its  face  the  words  "  Freedom, 
Union,  Service."  They  typify  the  freedom  of  the  individual  and 
of  the  churches ;  the  union  of  individuals  and  churches  in  a 
common  service  to  our  Lord  and  Master. 

Thus  through  its  Declaration,  by-laws,  and  seal  does  the  Con- 
vention proclaim  its  devotion  to  the  independence  of  the  indi- 
vidual and  of  the  church,  and  to  the  cooperation  of  all  individ- 
uals, and  of  all  churches,  and  of  all  denominational  organizations 
in  service  in  the  promotion  of  the  interests  of  the  kingdom  of  God. 

Xot  only  is  the  Convention  under  the  control  of  the  dele- 
gates from  the  churches,  but  the  right  of  these  delegates  to  select 


THE   STRUCTURE   OF   THE    CONVENTION  3/ 

the  officers  and  Executive  Committee  of  the  Convention  is  pro- 
tected by  a  procedure  which  comes  as  close  to  government  by 
pure  democracy  as  can  be  devised  for  a  delegated  body.  This 
right  is  secured  by  the  by-law  which  provides  for  the  selection 
of  a  Committee  on  Nominations  of  Officers  and  for  vacancies  in 
the  Executive  Committee.  This  by-law  was  designed  to  prevent 
any  combination  to  secure  or  control  nominations.  No  one  can 
be  a  member  of  this  committee  who  is  a  salaried  executive  officer 
or  an  employee  of  a  cooperating  or  an  affiliating  organization 
other  than  pastor,  or  who  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  managers 
of  a  cooperating  organization,  or  a  member  of  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  Convention,  with  the  single  exception  that  to 
act  in  an  advisory  capacity  a  member  of  a  board  of  managers 
or  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  may  be  appointed  a 
member  of  the  Committee  on  Nominations  without  the  right  to 
vote.  A  member  of  the  latter  committee  is  elected  by  each  State 
delegation  by  ballot,  the  State  delegations  being  called  together 
for  that  purpose  at  the  first  afternoon  session  of  the  Convention. 
It  cannot  be  known  who  will  constitute  the  Committee  on  Nomina- 
tions until  after  the  State  delegations  meet  and  make  their  nomina- 
tions thereto.  Thus  combinations  are  made  impracticable. 

To  provide  for  the  continuity  of  the  work  of  the  standing  com- 
mittees of  the  Convention,  each  committee  is  so  divided  that  the 
terms  of  one-third  of  its  members  expire  each  year.  This  permits 
the  introduction  into  its  membership  of  new  members  who,  on  the 
one  hand,  can  profit  by  the  experience  of  the  others  and,  on  the 
other,  can  introduce  new  plans,  methods,  and  thoughts.  It  also 
enables  the  committee  to  provide  intelligently  plans  to  cover  pro- 
longed periods. 

The  by-laws  provide  also  for  an  Executive  Committee  com- 
posed of  the  officers,  of  those  who  have  served  as  presidents  of 
the  Convention  during  the  three  years  preceding  the  last  annual 
meeting,  and  thirty  others  of  whom  fifteen  must  be  laymen.  The 
thirty  are  divided  into  three  equal  classes,  so  that  each  year 
one-third  of  the  number  and  others  to  fill  vacancies  are  nomi- 
nated by  the  Committee  on  Nominations  and  elected  by  the  Con- 
vention. No  one  other  than  an  officer  is  eligible  to  membership 
in  the  Executive  Committee  after  service  thereon  for  six  con- 
secutive years,  until  the  expiration  of  one  year  after  the  termina- 


38          A    MANUAL   OF   THE    NORTHERN    BAPTIST   CONVENTION 

tion  of  such  service.  This  committee  is  charged  with  the  very 
important  duty  of  caring  for  the  interest  of  the  Convention  be- 
tween its  meetings. 

There  is  a  committee  of  the  Convention  called  the  Board  of 
Education  whose  duty  is  to  develop  the  educational  convictions 
of  our  churches,  to  make  a  comprehensive  study  of  our  educa- 
tional institutions  and  denominational  ministries  in  other  schools 
of  learning  as  the  board  may  approve. 

There  is  no  denominational  interest  nor  any  interest  connected 
with  the  kingdom  of  God  which  could  not  be  served  either  by 
an  existing  committee  of  the  Convention  or  by  a  new  committee 
or  other  agency  which  the  Convention  may  create  or  appoint. 
The  powers  conferred  by  law,  by  the  action  of  its  cooperating  and 
affiliating  organizations,  and  by  its  own  actions  are  equal  to  any 
denominational  situation  or  demand  upon  the  denomination  that 
can  be  presented.  Loyalty  to  the  churches,  loyalty  to  the  coop- 
erating and  affiliating  organizations,  loyalty  to  the  Convention, 
and  an  all-embracing  loyalty  to  our  Lord  and  Master  are  all  that 
are  needed  to  make  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention  and  its 
associated  bodies  the  most  potent  factors  in  the  promotion  of  his 
work  that  this  country  and  indeed  the  world  has  ever  seen. 

What  has  the  structure  of  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention 
accomplished  thus  far?  What  can  it  say  in  justification  of  its 
creation  and  its  continuance  ? 

It  has  created  among  the  Baptists  within  its  territory  a  degree 
of  unity  that  previously  had  not  existed.  Its  constituency  is 
conscious  of  a  tie  that  has  bound  it  in  a  compact  body  that  has 
demonstrated  its  strength.  It  has  become  the  mouthpiece  of 
over  one  million  three  hundred  thousand  Baptists  and  of  over 
ten  thousand  churches  in  respect  to  great  denominational,  na- 
tional, State,  and  moral  questions;  it  has  created  a  greater  in- 
terest on  the  part  of  Baptists  in  the  questions  which  concern 
them ;  it  has  brought  into  greater  harmony  the  cooperating  organ- 
izations with  a  resulting  increase  in  efficiency  and  a  greater 
economy ;  it  has  increased  the  efficiency  of  the  State  Conventions, 
and  has  brought  them  into  cooperative  relations  between  them- 
selves, with  an  assurance  that  each  State  Convention  is  recog- 
nized as  the  great  missionary  force  in  the  State  and  the  agent 
of  the  cooperating  organizations  in  their  work  in  the  State. 


THE   STRUCTURE   OF   THE   CONVENTION  39 

The  Convention  is  a  great  national  organization  of  Baptists 
which  stands  ready  to  grapple  with  any  question  which  may  con- 
front the  whole  or  any  part  of  its  constituency.  It  is  also  a  great 
advisory  body,  to  which  any  part  of  its  constituency  may  look 
for  a  decision  in  any  denominational  matter,  or  indeed  in  any 
matter  in  which  as  a  Christian  body  the  denomination  may  or 
should  be  interested. 


V 
THE  COOPERATING  ORGANIZATIONS 


THE  COOPERATING  ORGANIZATIONS 


DIRECTORY  OF  COOPERATING 
ORGANIZATIONS 

AMERICAN  BAPTIST  FOREIGN  MISSION  SOCIETY,  Ford  Building,  Ashburton 
Place,  Boston,  Mass. 

Home  Secretary,  John  Y.  Aitchison. 

Treasurer,  Ernest  S.  Butler. 

Foreign  Secretaries,  James  H.  Franklin  and  Joseph  C.  Robbins. 

THE  AMERICAN  BAPTIST  HOME  MISSION  SOCIETY,  23  East  Twenty-sixth 
Street,  New  York  City. 

Secretary,  Charles  L.  White. 
Treasurer,  Frank  T.  Moulton. 

AMERICAN  BAPTIST  PUBLICATION  SOCIETY,  1701  Chestnut  Street,  Philadel- 
phia, Pa. 

Corresponding  Secretary,  Guy  C.  Lamson. 
Treasurer, 

WOMAN'S  AMERICAN  BAPTIST  HOME  MISSION  SOCIETY,  2969  Vernon  Ave- 
nue, Chicago,  111. 

Corresponding  Secretary,  Mrs.  Katherine  S.  Westfall. 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  John  Nuveen. 

WOMAN'S  AMERICAN  BAPTIST  FOREIGN  MISSION  SOCIETY. 

Home   Secretary,   Miss    Eleanor    Mare,   450    East   Thirtieth    Street, 
Chicago,  111. 

Foreign  Secretary,  Miss  Nellie  G.  Prescott,  Ford  Building,  Boston, 
Mass. 

Associate  Foreign  Secretary,  Miss  Helen  Hunt,  Ford  Building,  Boston, 
Mass. 

Treasurer,  Miss  Alice  E.  Stedman,  Ford  Building,  Boston,  Mass. 

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44          A    MANUAL   OF   THE    NORTHERN    BAPTIST   CONVENTION 


AMERICAN  BAPTIST  FOREIGN  MISSION 
SOCIETY 

By  J.  Y.  Ailchison,  D.  D.,  Home  Secretary 

THE  sailing  of  five  young  men  to  foreign  lands  in  1812  for 
missionary  service  constituted  the  founding  of  the  foreign 
mission  enterprise  of  American  Christianity.  Among  these 
was  Adoniram  Judson.  On  the  long  voyage  to  India  his  study 
of  the  New  Testament  led  to  a  change  of  conviction  regarding 
baptism,  and  accordingly  he  offered  his  services  as  a  missionary 
to  American  Baptists.  His  challenge  in  1814  called  into  exis- 
tence "  The  General  Missionary  Convention  of  the  Baptist  De- 
nomination in  the  United  States  of  America  for  Foreign  Mis- 
sions." In  1846  the  name  of  this  organization  was  changed  to 
"  American  Baptist  Missionary  Union,"  and  in  1910  the  present 
name  of  "  American  Baptist  Foreign  Mission  Society "  was 
adopted.  Since  1826  the  headquarters  of  the  Society  have  been 
in  Boston,  Massachusetts.  •  The  by-laws  of  the  Society  state 
that  the  purpose  of  the  organization  is  to  diffuse  the  knowledge 
of  the  religion  of  Jesus  Christ  by  means  of  missions  throughout 
the  world. 

The  Foreign  Mission  Society  of  Northern  Baptists  is  one  of 
the  largest  and  most  influential  in  the  realm  of  Protestantism.  A 
hundred  years  ago  only  $1,059  represented  the  financial  expendi- 
tures for  Baptist  foreign  missions,  whereas  during  the  past  five 
years  the  receipts  in  support  of  this  work  have  exceeded  one  mil- 
lion dollars  annually. 

The  work  of  the  Society  covers  a  vast  territory  in  the  non- 
Christian  world.  Ten  mission  fields  are  maintained.  These  are 
located  in  Japan,  the  Philippines,  East  China,  West  China,  South 
China,  Burma,  Assam,  Bengal-Orissa,  South  India,  and  Belgian 
Congo,  thus  forming  practically  a  great  missionary  belt  across 
the  densely  populated  area  of  heathenism.  In  these  there  are 
127  regularly  maintained  stations  with  missionaries  in  residence 
and  3,237  out-stations  or  preaching-places.  In  addition,  by  a 
cooperative  arrangement,  the  Society  since  1835  has  been  assist- 


THE   COOPERATING   ORGANIZATIONS  45 

ing  the  Baptist  cause  in  Europe,  where  missions  are  maintained 
in  eight  European  countries.  The  missionaries  supported  by  the 
Society  to-day  number  688  (including  those  of  the  Woman's 
Society),  and  these  are  assisted  by  6,673  native  workers.  In 
Europe  2,480  workers  were  in  service  in  1914,  but  what  effect 
the  war  has  had  upon  their  number  has  not  yet  been  determined. 

The  work  is  as  varied  as  it  is  extensive.  Of  primary  importance 
is  evangelism,  and  the  results  constitute  one  of  the  marvels 
of  foreign  missions.  In  non-Christian  lands  to-day  183,505 
church-members  are  enrolled  in  1,732  regularly  organized  Bap- 
tist churches,  of  which  1,027,  or  fifty-nine  per  cent,  are  self- 
supporting.  It  is  a  noteworthy  fact,  and  one  productive  of  deep 
gratification,  that  among  the  Karen  people  in  Burma  the  per- 
centage of  self-supporting  Baptist  churches  is  greater  than  in 
any  State  of  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention.  "In  1916  the 
missionaries  on  all  fields  baptized  12,355  converts,  and  the  total 
number  of  baptisms  since  the  work  began  has  exceeded  625,000. 

The  service  of  the  medical  missionary  is  of  value  in  that  it 
visualizes  the  Great  Physician,  and  at  the  same  time  opens  the 
door  to  the  evangelist  with  his  healing  gospel  for  the  diseases 
of  the  soul.  Fifty-one  missionary  physicians,  assisted  by  133 
native  nurses  and  other  helpers,  give  their  full  time  to  this  im- 
portant work.  Twenty-one  hospitals  and  forty-eight  dispen- 
saries constitute  the  equipment  for  their  service.  More  than 
83,000  patients  received  medical  and  surgical  treatment  during 
the  past  year,  and  plans  are  now  being  made  for  a  great  advance 
in  this  phase  of  the  Society's  work. 

Second  in  importance  to  evangelism  comes  the  work  of  Chris- 
tian education.  The  educational  work  is  conducted  in  six  col- 
leges, twenty-nine  theological  seminaries  and  training-schools, 
and  2,602  schools  of  all  grades,  with  a  total  enrolment  of  over 
85,000  pupils.  More  than  89,000  pupils  receive  religious  instruc- 
tion in  2,301  Sunday  Schools.  The  missionaries  have  trans- 
lated the  Bible,  in  whole  or  in  part,  into  thirty  dialects  and 
languages.  Three  printing  and  publication  plants  are  connected 
with  the  Society,  where  Bibles,  periodicals,  hymn-books,  text- 
books, and  other  literature  are  printed. 

Another  important  work  is  that  of  industrial  training.  Along 
with  the  necessity  of  leading  men  and  women  to  Christ  exists 


46         A    MANUAL  OF  THE   NORTHERN   BAPTIST   CONVENTION 

the  need  of  providing  means  of  self-support.  Conversion  is  only 
the  first  step  in  the  development  of  a  Christian  character. 
Furthermore,  not  only  must  individual  character  be  transformed 
through  the  redeeming  power  of  the  gospel,  but  a  Christian 
civilization  must  be  established  in  the  native  community.  Other- 
wise, the  new  converts,  surrounded  by  their  former  heathen 
environment,  find  it  painfully  difficult  to  maintain  their  new 
and  childlike  faith  amid  such  evil  influences.  Thus  industrial 
training  becomes  a  stern  necessity,  not  only  for  the  character 
development  of  the  new  believer,  but  also  to  make  possible, 
at  an  early  date,  a  self-supporting  church  through  providing 
remunerative  employment  for  its  members.  Various  occupations 
are  taught,  dependent  on  climatic  conditions  and  other  features 
of  the  environment.  In  Africa,  at  the  Kimpese  training-schools, 
converts  learn  brickmaking,  carpentry,  typewriting,  and  tailor- 
ing. In  China  they  are  taught  gardening,  lacemaking,  and  weav- 
ing. In  British  India  bookbinding,  printing,  iron  work,  and 
carpentry  receive  attention,  while  surveying  and  engineering  are 
taught  in  the  Philippine  Islands  Mission.  Considerable  atten- 
tion is  given  in  all  fields  to  agricultural  training. 

Obviously  a  work  as  large,  as  many-sided,  and  as  varied  as 
this  needs  considerable  material  equipment  to  make  it  effective 
and  to  guarantee  permanent  results.  Large  sums  have  been  in- 
vested in  equipment.  Missionaries  must  have  suitable  homes; 
schools  must  have  buildings,  apparatus,  and  libraries;  preaching 
halls  and  chapels  must  be  built;  doctors  must  have  dispensaries 
and  hospitals ;  and  printing-presses  must  be  housed.  Then  there 
are  the  touring  outfits,  carts,  ponies,  tents,  gospel  wagons, 
launches,  motor-cycles,  and  many  other  things,  all  needed  for 
carrying  the  message  to  the  people  in  cities  and  villages,  moun- 
tains and  jungles.  There  are  many  buildings  in  the  missions 
as  good  as  can  be  found  anywhere  in  the  Orient,  like  the  Cush- 
ing  Memorial  Buildings  of  Rangoon  Baptist  College,  or  the 
American  Baptist  Mission  Press  at  Rangoon,  or  the  Ashmore 
Theological  Seminary  at  Swatow,  China,  or  the  new  Tabernacle 
in  Tokyo,  Japan.  Unfortunately  not  all  the  work  is  as  well  cared 
for,  lack  of  money  making  it  impossible  to  provide  the  mis- 
sionaries with  the  equipment  which  is  absolutely  essential  to  the 
largest  use  of  their  abilities  and  opportunities.  At  least  ten 


THE   COOPERATING   ORGANIZATIONS  47 

million  dollars  will  be  needed  by  the  end  of  the  Five  Year 
Program,  March  31,  1921,  to  equip  the  present  work  on  the 
foreign  field  as  it  ought  to  be. 

The  administration  of  this  great  enterprise  is  placed  in  the 
hands  of  a  Board  of  Managers  of  twenty-eight  members,  nine  of 
whom  are  appointed  each  year.  The  plans  and  policies  of  the 
Board  are  carried  out  under  the  direction  of  the  executive  of- 
ficers. At  the  present  writing  these  are  six  in  number. 


AMERICAN  BAPTIST  PUBLICATION  SOCIETY 

By  Guy  C.  Lamson,  D.  D.,  General  Secretary 

THE  American  Baptist  Publication  Society  is  the  second  oldest 
of  our  great  general  denominational  organizations.  It  was 
organized  in  1824  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  to  print  tracts  to  send 
into  the  destitute  regions.  In  1826  its  headquarters  were  re- 
moved to  Philadelphia.  The  Society  owns  its  own  headquarters, 
one  of  the  finest  office  buildings  in  Philadelphia.  The  printing 
plant  of  the  Society,  a  modern  six-story  building,  is  located  in 
a  different  section  of  the  city,  and  is  fully  equipped  to  do  first- 
class  work. 

The  work  of  the  Society  is  carried  on  through  two  great  de- 
partments: a  Publishing  Department  and  an  Extension  Depart- 
ment. The  Publishing  Department  is  responsible  for  the  pub- 
lication of  the  Sunday  School  literature  and  periodicals  of 
the  denomination.  It  issues  thirty-five  Sunday  School  periodicals, 
with  an  annual  output  of  approximately  sixty  million  copies.  In 
addition  to  the  publication  of  Sunday  School  literature  the  So- 
ciety publishes  an  average  of  about  fifty  books  a  year,  and  a 
very  large  number  of  pamphlets.  About  five  thousand  different 
tracts  are  published  in  fifteen  tongues.  Several  millions  are 
circulated  annually.  The  Society  also  prints  the  Bible  as  a 
whole  and  by  portions  in  English  and  in  nine  other  tongues. 

The  entire  profits  from  the  Department  of  Publication  are 
turned  over  to  the  Extension  Department  for  its  work.  Arrange- 
ments have  now  been  made  whereby  in  the  future  a  portion  of 


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the  profits  of  each  year  will  be  paid  into  the  treasuries  of  the 
various  State  Conventions  for  use  by  their  boards  in  their 
extension  work. 

The  Extension  Department  carries  all  the  varied  activities  of 
the  Society's  work  in  the  field,  such  as  colportage;  Sunday 
School,  both  missionary  and  educational ;  chapel  car  work ;  social 
service  work,  including  temperance  and  rural  life  work ;  vacation 
Bible  Schools;  and  Bible  distribution.  The  Society  began  its 
extension  work  on  a  systematic  basis  in  1840,  when  it  employed 
colporters  to  distribute  its  literature.  The  colportage  idea  was 
later  adopted  by  other  bodies.  In  the  colportage  work  at  the 
present  time  the  Society  uses  about  sixty  colportage  wagons 
and  outfits,  twenty-three  automobiles,  and  three  gospel  boats. 
The  automobiles  are  used  in  sections  of  the  country  where  roads 
are  good  and  distances  great.  Some  are  equipped  with  sleeping 
accommodations  for  the  worker  in  charge.  Some  are  equipped 
with  tents.  A  few  colportage  wagons  are  equipped  with  living 
accommodations  for  a  worker  and  his  wife.  They  have  cooking 
and  storage  facilities,  and  sleeping  quarters.  The  boats  are 
equipped  to  be  the  homes  of  the  workers  while  in  service. 

The  Sunday  School  work  of  the  Society  is  varied  and  exten- 
sive. For  many  years  a  specialty  was  made  of  the  organization 
of  new  Sunday  Schools  in  unchurched  territory.  The  workers 
of  the  Society  have  organized  more  than  sixteen  thousand  Sun- 
day Schools.  In  recent  years  the  policy  has  been  changed  from 
one  of  indiscriminate  organization  to  that  of  selected  organiza- 
tion, and  the  workers  of  the  Society  are  told  to  organize  only  in 
those  places  where  there  are  prospects  of  permanency. 

With  the  development  of  Sunday  School  missionary  work  has 
grown  the  necessity  for  an  educational  campaign  among  schools 
already  in  existence.  The  educational  work  among  Sunday 
Schools  has  been  greatly  extended  in  recent  years.  In  harmony 
with  the  Committee  on  Religious  Education  of  the  Northern 
Baptist  Convention  the  Society  has  promulgated  its  educational 
plans.  By  means  of  institutes  over  two  hundred  thousand  Bap- 
tist Sunday  School  officers  and  teachers  are  reached  for  training 
each  year.  A  force  of  directors  in  each  State  Convention,  with 
three  exceptions,  is  bringing  the  highest  educational  ideals  to  the 
remotest  school.  Correspondence  Teacher-training  Courses  are 


THE   COOPERATING   ORGANIZATIONS  49 

also  given  to  those  living  in  districts  where  teacher-training 
classes  are  impracticable. 

The  Society  is  the  responsible  agency  for  conducting  the  young 
people's  work  of  the  denomination,  and  executes  its  plans  in 
harmony  with  the  Young  People's  Council. 

The  Society  owns  and  operates  seven  chapel  cars.  It  was 
the  first  organization  in  the  world  to  build  a  real  chapel  car. 
They  are  built  like  Pullman  cars,  with  living  quarters  in  one 
end  for  the  worker  and  his  family,  and  the  rest  fitted  up  as  a 
meeting-place,  in  which  there  are  seating  accommodations  for 
from  sixty-five  to  ninety-seven,  according  to  the  car.  One  of  the 
cars  is  equipped  with  a  baptistery.  The  last  one  built  is  all  steel, 
costing,  equipped,  about  twenty-two  thousand  five  hundred  dol- 
lars. It  is  the  largest  of  its  kind  in  existence,  and  is  a  credit  to 
the  denomination. 

Through  its  Social  Service  Department  the  Society  seeks  to 
organize  adult  classes  and  brotherhoods,  to  help  churches  broaden 
their  activities  and  relationships,  and  to  train  workers  for  dis- 
tinctive lines  of  religious  work.  In  connection  with  this  depart- 
ment the  work  of  the  Daily  Vacation  Bible  School  was  organized 
in  1916.  At  present  Daily  Vacation  Bible  Schools  are  being 
held  in  more  than  half  the  States.  Early  in  1918  the  Society 
launched  its  work  for  Rural  Life  and  Community  Betterment, 
and  also  its  denomination's  temperance  campaign,  destined  to 
associate  all  of  our  Baptist  churches  with  the  organized  temper- 
ance agencies  of  the.  country  in  the  definite  endeavor  to  make 
the  nation  dry. 

Through  its  Bible  work  the  Society  is  putting  the  Scriptures 
into  fifty  thousand  destitute  homes  yearly.  The  Society  can 
now  furnish  Scriptures  to  other  Bible  agencies  in  America  in 
certain  foreign  tongues,  while  the  missionary  agencies  of  our 
own  denomination  are  freely  supplied  with  all  copies  that  are 
needed  for  distribution. 


5O          A    MANUAL   OF   THE    NORTHERN    BAPTIST   CONVENTION 


THE  AMERICAN  BAPTIST  HOME  MISSION 
SOCIETY 

By  Charles  L   White,  D.  D.,  Secretary 

E  missionaries  of  The  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  So- 
1  ciety,  which  was  organized  in  1832,  began  their  work  in  the 
Mississippi  Valley  and  followed  the  settlers  as  the  frontier  moved 
westward.  They  established  churches,  built  meeting-houses, 
started  schools,  organized  colleges,  and  laid  the  foundations  of  a 
permanent  Christian  civilization.  Nearly  every  Convention  west 
of  the  Mississippi  grew  out  of  churches  started  and  fostered 
by  the  Society. 

After  eighty-six  years  its  wide-spread  work  stretches  from  the 
Atlantic  to  the  Pacific,  is  carried  forward  in  every  State,  of  the 
Union  except  New  Mexico,  and  reaches  into  Cuba,  Porto  Rico, 
Mexico,  El  Salvador,  and  Nicaragua,  It  has  built  or  aided  in  the 
erection  of  more  than  three  thousand  meeting-houses,  and  has 
recently  been  giving  attention  to  the  improvement  of  Baptist 
churches  in  educational  centers.  Its  work  among  fifteen  Indian 
tribes  has  been  very  fruitful.  It  has  expended  during  the  last  fifty- 
five  years  $6,000,000  in  building,  equipping,  and  maintaining 
educational  institutions  in  the  Southern  States  to  prepare  in- 
tellectual and  spiritual  leadership  for  the  Negro  race.  Its 
schools  for  the  Indians,  foreign-speaking  groups  in  Chicago, 
Cleveland,  and  New  York  City,  and  in  Cuba,  Porto  Rico,  and 
Mexico  have  been  strongly  maintained. 

This  Society  is  an  interstate  organization  for  doing  the 
home  mission  work  of  the  Northern  Baptists,  and  has  been  a 
strong  national  agent  in  building  the  denomination.  Its  inter- 
national influence  reaches  to  every  corner  of  the  earth,  to  which 
men  and  women  won  to  Christianity  through  the  efforts  of  its 
devoted  missionaries  have  returned  home  to  spread  the  influence 
of  their  new  ideals.  Its  missionaries  are  laboring  among  twenty- 
seven  different  foreign  groups  who  have  colonized  in  America, 
and  some  of  their  converts,  returning  to  their  peoples  across  the 
seas,  established  churches  of  like  faith  to  those  which  they 


THE   COOPERATING   ORGANIZATIONS  5! 

entered  in  America,  and  which  have  proved  to  be  the  begin- 
nings of  great  denominational  developments  in  distant  nations. 
The  Society  has  been  a  wise  adviser,  furnishing  consecrated  guides 
to  those  who  have  been  passing  through  the  wilderness  of  many 
spiritual  adventures.  It  has  been  an  efficiency  expert,  whose 
agents  have  seen  the  vision  of  the  whole  country  as  they  have 
planned  for  the  work  of  all  the  Conventions  and  city  mission  so- 
cieties. It  has  stood  as  the  loving  parent,  equally  interested  in 
every  member  of  the  large  and  widely  scattered  family,  assisting 
one  son  with  the  gift  of  another  son  and  uniting  all  in  the 
education  and  success  of  the  younger  children  coming  later  to 
their  strength.  It  has  been  the  strong  bank  with  firm  lines  of 
credit,  maintaining  the  even  distribution  of  missionary  currency 
that  gives  stability  to  all  church  enterprises.  It  has  assisted  in 
the  day  of  harvest,  and  when  the  drought  was  long  it  provided 
for  the  distress  of  the  workmen.  It  has  always  been  a  trans- 
continental transportation  company,  sending  leaders  and  supplies 
for  the  opening  of  new  areas  and  for  the  intensive  development 
of  older  States.  It  has  been  a  national  promoter,  watching  for 
opportunities  hitherto  unseen  or  neglected,  passing  into  new  sec- 
tions, and  entering  open  doors  to  Cuba,  Porto  Rico,  Central 
America,  congested  foreign  centers,  newly  irrigated  regions, 
needy  rural  communities,  mining-  and  lumber-camps,  and  striving 
to  make  all  into  the  garden  and  city  of  God.  It  has  been  the 
great  physician,  taking  supplies  of  medicine  and  food  to  the 
regions  where  the  inhabitants  were  in  sudden  want  because  of 
fires,  earthquakes,  floods,  and  storm.  It  has  been  a  distributer 
of  workmen  where  most  needed.  It  has  been  the  architect  who 
has  drawn  many  of  the  plans  of  a  Christian  system  of  education 
for  backward  peoples,  for  church  edifice  extension,  and  for  the 
multiplying  work  of  those  many  city  and  State  mission  societies 
with  which  it  has  fruitfully  cooperated.  The  country-wide,  uni- 
versal, cosmopolitan,  interorganizational,  and  inspirational  char- 
acter of  its  work  has  marked  its  growth  during  nearly  nine 
decades.  Every  national  problem,  whether  educational,  social, 
economic,  or  spiritual,  is  a  home  mission  problem.  What  the 
Society  has  been,  it  is  now,  and,  in  a  larger  sense,  must  be  in 
coming  years. 


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WOMAN'S  AMERICAN  BAPTIST  HOME  MISSION 

SOCIETY 

By  Mrs.  S.  C  Jennings 

THE  Woman's  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society  works 
among  the  non-Christian  women  and  children  of  home  mis- 
sion fields.  The  work  is  conducted  in  three  departments — the 
home,  the  school,  and  the  Christian  center.  Trained  women 
missionaries  work  in  the  homes.  They  carry  practical  sugges- 
tions for  daily  living,  gather  children  into  industrial  and  Sunday 
Schools,  temperance,  missionary,  and  Bible  bands.  Through  the 
children  mothers  are  persuaded  to  attend  mothers'  and  Bible 
classes,  and  eventually  whole  families  unite  with  the  church. 

In  the  homes  trained  missionary  nurses  minister  to  soul  and 
body,  giving  lessons  in  sanitation,  hygiene,  preparation  of  food, 
and  care  of  children.  The  immigrant  mother  is  taught  English 
by  the  aid  of  simply  worded  Bible  stories. 

The  missionary  creates  the  desire  for  education,  which  is  met 
by  employing  teachers  in  schools  among  Negroes,  Indians,  Orien- 
tals, and  Spanish-speaking  peoples.  From  kindergartens  through 
primary,  high-school,  industrial,  college,  normal,  and  missionary 
training  the  pupil  is  given  Bible  study  with  all  the  other  work. 
The  truths  taught  are  applied  to  daily  living.  Every  school  in 
which  there  are  older  students  serves  as  a  community  center 
of  Christian  helpfulness.  Last  year  Spelman  Seminary  graduated 
from  the  high  school  forty-four  young  women,  six  of  whom 
had  taken  the  college  preparatory  course,  and  thirty-eight  the 
teachers'  preparatory  training-course.  Eight  graduated  from  the 
teachers'  professional  course,  one  took  her  B.  A.,  and  one  a 
diploma  in  advanced  piano.  Five  nurses  finished  the  three-year 
course.  Fifty-seven  secured  certificates  of  proficiency  from  in- 
dustrial courses,  and  eight  from  the  preparatory  music  course. 

The  Baptist  Missionary  Training  School  in  Chicago  is  equipped 
to  prepare  women  for  every  phase  of  Christian  service.  The 
three  years'  course  is  full  of  essentials  for  the  workman  in 
present-day  kingdom  service.  Ninety  students  are  enrolled, 


THE   COOPERATING   ORGANIZATIONS  53 

twenty  are  now  ready  for  appointment  under  this  Board.  All 
over  the  world  are  its  graduates. 

Changing  conditions  of  population  have  placed  the  emphasis 
on  different  fields.  The  increase  in  numbers  of  trained  ministers 
and  laymen  and  women  among  the  Negroes  of  the  South  is 
releasing  our  white  missionaries  for  other  fields.  This  is  true 
also  of  the  alien  populations  from  Northern  Europe.  To-day 
the  Society  is  emphasizing  work  among  foreign-speaking  peoples 
from  Southern  and  Eastern  Europe  and  in  Latin  America. 

Because  of  the  conviction  that  Christian  centers  best  serve 
the  mixed  populations  in  large  cities,  the  Society  is  cooperating 
in  such  centers  in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  Louisville,  Ky.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
New  York  City,  and  Chicago.  Last  summer  the  center  at  Aiken 
Institute,  Chicago,  had  the  largest  Daily  Vacation  Bible  School 
in  the  United  States.  Plans  are  being  made  for  cooperation  in 
other  centers  in  the  near  future.  The  Society  grants  assistance 
in  the  erection  of  buildings  and  maintains  a  missionary  super- 
intendent, trained  nurse,  and  kindergartner  in  each  center. 

Latin  America  also  demands  special  attention.  The  unschooled 
masses  of  Cuba  cry  out  for  education,  and  only  ten  teachers  have 
been  sent  at  any  one  time.  In  Porto  Rico,  where  excellent  public 
schools  exist,  the  call  is  for  missionaries.  At  Ponce  the  Day 
Nursery  is  opening  hearts  and  homes  to  the  missionaries,  while 
the  Hostel  at  Rio  Piedras  provides  a  Christian  home  for  the 
normal  school  girls,  who  would  otherwise  live  in  Catholic  families. 

Mexico's  needs  call  for  relief,  but  the  law  of  the  country,  pro- 
hibiting religious  teaching  by  foreigners,  limits  the  service  of  the 
Society.  Trained  native  teachers  are  in  the  schools,  and  Amer- 
ican and  native  nurses  in  the  new  hospital  at  Puebla. 

In  Central  America  the  crowd  is  hungry  to  hear  the  gospel. 
This  Society  began  work  two  years  ago  in  the  appointment  of 
Miss  Blackmore  at  Managua,  Nicaragua;  the  same  year  two 
other  missionaries  went  out  to  San  Salvador,  and  because  of  the 
ignorance  of  the  people  felt  compelled  to  hold  some  day  classes. 
Four  day-schools  have  been  opened  during  the  year,  but  without 
enough  teachers  or  adequate  buildings  or  equipment.  The  out- 
standing needs  are  schools  and  trained  native  teachers. 

The  war  has  created  a  new  responsibility,  which  the  Society 
is  meeting  in  cooperation  with  the  War  Commission.  Baptist 


54          A    MANUAL   OF   THE   NORTHERN    BAPTIST   CONVENTION 

women  in  the  cities  near  cantonments  join  in  a  survey  to  deter- 
mine the  most  efficient  methods  of  providing  home  and  social 
privileges  for  the  men  in  camp.  The  Society  is  ready  to  respond 
to  all  calls  for  such  service. 

The  Society  is  represented  by  three  hundred  and  twenty-five 
missionaries  and  teachers  in  forty  States,  District  of  Columbia, 
Alaska,  Mexico,  Cuba,  Porto  Rico,  and  Central  America.  In 
addition  to  the  Alaskan  Indians  and  the  Spanish-speaking  peo- 
ples, they  minister  to  Poles,  French,  Germans,  Syrians,  Italians, 
Jews,  Scandinavians,  Slavic  nationalities,  Indians,  Negroes, 
Chinese,  Japanese,  and  Russians. 


WOMAN'S  AMERICAN  BAPTIST  FOREIGN 
MISSION  SOCIETY 

By  Miss  Nellie  G.  Prescott,  Foreign  Secretary 

THE  scope  of  this  Society  is  stated  in  its  constitution,  as  fol- 
lows: "  The  object  of  this  Society  shall  be  the  elevation  and 
Christianization  of  women  and  children  in  foreign  lands." 

The  Society  has  carried  on  its  work  forty-seven  years  in 
Oriental  countries.  The  means  and  methods  used  are  also  de- 
scribed in  the  constitution,  as  follows :  "  This  object  it  shall  seek  to 
accomplish  by  engaging  the  earnest,  sympathetic  cooperation  of 
the  women  of  our  Baptist  churches  in  sending  out  and  support- 
ing women  missionaries  to  do  evangelistic,  educational,  and 
medical  work  on  the  foreign  fields,  in  developing  and  employing 
native  Christian  teachers  and  Bible  women,  physicians  and  nurses, 
and  in  erecting  such  buildings  as  may  be  deemed  necessary  for 
the  prosecution  of  the  work." 

The  Society  operates  in  five  countries — British  India,  China, 
Japan,  Philippine  Islands,  and  Africa ;  in  ten  mission  fields : 
South  India,  Bengal-Orissa,  Assam,  Burma,  South,  East,  and 
West  China,  Japan,  Philippine  Islands,  and  Belgian  Congo.  It 
has  one  hundred  and  ninety  missionaries  under  appointment, 
four-fifths  of  whom  are  always  at  their  work,  while  the  remain- 
ing one-fifth  are  at  home  for  reasons  of  health  or  advanced  years, 


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or  on  regular  furlough.  In  addition  there  are  about  eighty  mis- 
sionaries of  the  American  Baptist  Foreign  Mission  Society  who 
have  requested  and  have  been  granted  appropriations  from  the 
Woman's  Society  and  who  are  making  a  valuable  contribution 
to  our  work  for  women  and  children.  These  missionaries  make 
their  influence  felt  through  one  hundred  and  six  boarding-schools, 
sixty-seven  day-schools,  seven  hundred  and  sixty-five  village 
schools,  and  eight  hundred  and  sixty-two  Sunday  Schools.  They 
direct  the  work  of  nearly  three  hundred  Bible  women  and  come 
into  close  touch  with  at  least  thirty-six  thousand  Oriental  boys  and 
girls.  They  are  at  work  in  twenty-six  hospitals  and  dispensaries, 
bringing  help  and  healing  each  year  to  over  seventy  thousand 
men,  women,  and  children. 

The  Woman's  Foreign  Mission  Society  feels  more  and  more 
strongly  that  its  object  will  be  most  quickly  attained  if  it  aims 
to  develop  Christian  women  in  the  Orient  who  shall  themselves 
be  able  to  teach  and  train  their  own  people  along  all  Christian 
lines.  To  this  end  a  constant  effort  is  being  made  to  send  out 
young  women  who  shall,  through  their  training,  preparation,  ex- 
perience, and  Christian  culture  and  life  give  promise  of  exem- 
plifying the  finest  types  of  our  trained  Christian  womanhood. 
College  or  normal  graduates  are  sought  who  have  supplemented 
this  general  preparation  by  actual  teaching .  experience  in  our 
schools,  or  by  further  study  in  Bible  schools  and  seminaries  of 
good  standing.  Registered  trained  nurses  and  physicians,  grad- 
uates from  accredited  medical  schools,  are  also  sought,  as  are 
kindergartners  and  music  teachers.  The  success  which  has  thus 
far  been  attained  and  the  influence  which  is  exerted  through  our 
work  is  largely  due  to  these  women  who  have  through  the  years 
so  faithfully  and  steadily  stood  for  the  best  that  Christian 
America  can  offer  to  women. 

The  purpose  of  the  Society  is  also  being  secured  through  the 
types  of  educational  work  which  have  been  and  are  being  de- 
veloped. More  and  more,  through  committees  on  the  field,  the 
educational  problems  of  the  different  countries  are  being  studied 
with  a  view  to  coordinating  and  developing  the  educational  work 
to  meet  the  real  need,  and  to  offer  to  young  women  the  training 
that  will  fit  them  to  adjust  themselves  to  the  rapidly  .changing 
conditions  in  the  Orient.  The  Society  has  under  its  charge 


56          A    MANUAL   OF   THE    NORTHERN*    BAPTIST   CONVENTION 

schools  for  kindergarten  teachers  and  Bible  students;  special 
schools  for  older  women ;  normal  schools  and  nurses'  training- 
schools,  in  addition  to  the  elementary  and  high  schools  where  the 
preparation  for  more  advanced  work  is  obtained.  Within  the  last 
few  years,  another  avenue  for  higher  training  has  opened  through 
the  union  schools  and  colleges  which  have  been  established.  The 
Society  is  actively  interested  in  the  Union  Christian  Colleges  for 
Women  in  Madras,  India,  and  Nanking,  China,  and  is  looking 
forward  to  the  opening  of  one  in  Tokyo,  Japan,  in  April,  1918. 
The  Union  Girls'  High  School,  Hangchow,  China,  is  already  on  a 
well-established  basis,  and  the  Union  Normal  School  for  Girls 
at  Chengtu.  China,  is  slowly  but  steadily  growing.  Two  colleges 
projected  for  establishment  in  the  near  future  are  for  advanced 
medical  training  at  Xellore,  India,  and  Shanghai,  China.  The 
development  of  an  Oriental  literature  adequate  and  suited  to 
children,  girls,  and  women,  who  are  now  demanding  reading 
material  of  all  kinds,  is  also  receiving  the  attention  of  the  Society. 

Along  medical  lines  a  similar  effort  is  being  made  to  train 
young  women  to  become  efficient  nurses  among  their  own  people. 
Within  the  last  two  years  a  woman's  hospital  has  been  projected 
for  West  China,  and  a  portion  of  the  money  appropriated,  three 
hospitals  promised  our  Congo  Mission,  in  cooperation  with  the 
American  Baptist  Foreign  Mission  Society,  and  the  Ellen  Mitchell 
Memorial  Hospital  opened  in  Maulmain,  Burma.  To  strengthen 
the  medical  work  the  Society  sent  to  the  Orient  in  1917-1918  four 
women  physicians  and  two  trained  nurses. 

This  purpose  to  train  young  women  for  efficient  service  finds 
its  strongest  confirmation  in  the  direct  evangelistic  work  which 
is  now  everywhere  possible.  In  nearly  every  field  there  is  a 
Bible  training-school,  graduating  each  year  a  group  of  earnest, 
consecrated  young  and  older  women  who  have  within  their 
hearts  the  real  spirit  of  Christ  and  the  desire  to  witness  for 
him.  The  doors  of  the  Oriental  home  are  open  now  to  those 
who  bring  the  message,  thousands  wait  for  the  life-giving  story, 
many  die  without  hearing  it.  The  women  of  the  Orient  are  the 
guardians  of  the  religion  of  their  people.  To  them  we  must 
look  for  the  successful  attainment  of  the  object  of  our  Society — 
the  elevation  and  Christianization  of  women  and  children  in  the 
Orient. 


VI 
THE  CONVENTION  BOARDS 


THE  CONVENTION  BOARDS 

THE  MINISTERS  AND  MISSIONARIES  BENEFIT 

BOARD 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  BOARD 


Term  expires  1918 

G.  G.  Butcher,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Rev.    C.    M.     Gallup,    Providence, 

R.  I. 
Rev.  F.  M.  Goodchild,  New  York 

City. 

C.  H.  Prescott,  Jr.,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 
C.  E.  Prior,  Hartford,  Conn. 
E.  S.  Reinhold,  Chester,  Pa. 
Rev.  P.  C.  Wright,  Hartford,  Conn., 

Recording  Secretary. 


Term  expires 

W.  G.  Brimson,   Chicago,  111. 

A.    K.  .  Van    Deventer,    Elizabeth, 

N.  J. 
A.  M.  Harris,  Plainfield,  N.  J. 


Rev.  A.  A.  Shaw,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
C.  M.  Thorns,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 
Rev.  H.  J.  Vosburgh,  Camden,  N.  J. 
Rev.     Cornelius     Woelfkin,     New 
York  City. 

Term  expires  1920 
F.  P.  Beaver,  Dayton,  Ohio. 
Rev.  C.  A.  Eaton,  New  York  City. 
Rev.     E.     P.    Farnham,    Brooklyn, 

N.  Y. 
E.     H.     Haskell,    Newton     Center, 

Mass.,  President. 
Rev.  G.  W.  Nicholson,  Bridgeport, 

Conn. 

R.  L.   Scott,  Chicago,  111. 
Robert   Stone,  Topeka,  Kans. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  BOARD  FOR  SEVEN  YEARS 


1911-,  Tomlinson,  E.  T.,  Executive 
Secretary,  New  York  City. 

1917-,  Beaver,  F.  P.,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

1916-,  Brimson,  W.  G.,  Chicago,  111. 

1912-1917,  Davison,  Rev.  W.  A., 
Burlington,  Vt. 

1912-1917,  Dimock,  G.  E.,  Eliza- 
beth, N.  J. 

1911-1916,  *Doane,  W.  H.,  Cincin- 
nati, Ohio. 

1912-,  Dutcher,  G.  G.,  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y. 

1911-,  Eaton,  Rev.  C.  A.,  New 
York  City. 

*  Deceased. 


1912-,  Farnham,  Rev.  E.  P.,  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y. 

1911-,  Gallup,  Rev.  C.  M.,  Provi- 
dence, R.  I. 

1912-,  Goodchild,  Rev.  F.  M.,  New 
York  City. 

1912-,  Harris,  A.  M.,  Plainfield, 
N.  J. 

1911-,  Haskell,  E.  H.,  Newton 
Center,  Mass. 

1911-1913,  *Haslam,  Rev.  J.  H., 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 

1911-1912,  Humpstone,  Rev.  John, 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

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6O          A    MAX  UAL   OF   THE    NORTHERN    BAPTIST   CONVENTION 

1912-1917,    Keller,    Luther,    Scran-  1915-,  Shaw,  Rev.  A.  A.,  Brooklyn, 

ton,  Pa.  N.  Y. 

1911-1915,  MacLeish,  Andrew,  Glen-  1916-,  Stone,  Robert,  Topeka,  Kans. 

coe,  111.  1911-,    Thorns,    C.    M.,    Rochester, 

1911-1917,  *Morehouse,  Rev.  H.  L.,  N.  Y. 

New  York  City.  1913-   Van  Deventer,  A.  K.,  Eliza- 

1917-,     Nicholson,     Rev.     G.     W.,  beth,  N.  J. 

Bridgeport,  Conn.  1912-,  Vosburgh,  Rev.  H.  J.,  Cam- 

1911-1912,    Porter,    H.    K.,    Pitts-  den,  N.  J. 

burgh,  Pa.  1913-1916,  White,  Rev.  H.  J.,  Hart- 

1912-,   Prescott,  C.  H.,  Jr.,   Cleve-  ford,  Conn. 

land,  Ohio.  1912-1916,  Wilson,  Rev.  J.  K.,  Port- 

1914-,  Prior,  C.  E.,  Hartford,  Conn.  land,  Me. 

1911-  Reinhold,  E.  S.,  Chester,  Pa.  1911-,  Wright,  Rev.  P.  C.,  Hartford, 

1917-,  Scott,  R.  L.,  Chicago,  111.  Conn. 

1911-1914,  *Shallenberger,  Gen.  W.  1916-,    Woelfkin,    Rev.    Cornelius, 

S.,  Washington,  D.  C.  New  York  City. 


WORK  OF  THE  BOARD 
By  Rev.  E.  T.  Tomlinson,  Executive  Secretary 

THE  Northern  Baptist  Convention  in  May,  1908,  appointed 
a  commission  of  seven  "  to  make  inquiry  concerning  the 
methods  and  the  extent  of  aid  to  aged  and  disabled  Baptist 
ministers  and  the  dependent  widows  of  deceased  ministers;  also 
to  make  a  careful  estimate  of  the  number  of  such  persons  by 
classes  within  the  bounds  of  the  Convention  for  whom  provision 
should  be  made  annually  and  the  aggregate  amount  required 
for  this  purpose."  In  the  following  year  Dr.  Henry  L.  More- 
house,  the  prime  mover  in  the  work  as  well  as  chairman  of  the 
commission,  reported  that  more  time  was  required.  Similar 
reports  subsequently  were  made  to  the  Convention  in  1910  and 
1911.  Just  before  the  meeting  in  1911,  Doctor  Morehouse  re- 
ceived a  communication  from  one  who  expressed  himself  deeply 
interested  and  offered  to  give  $50,000  toward  a  fund,  provided 
the  denomination  would  contribute  $200,000  additional  by  Christ- 
mas of  that  year.  This  unknown  giver  was  "  A  Man  from 
Pennsylvania."  Resolutions  appreciative  of  the  generous  offer 
were  enthusiastically  adopted,  and  the  Convention  pledged  itself 
to  recognize  the  annual  budget  of  the  Benefit  Board  as  one  of 

*  Deceased. 


THE    CONVENTION    BOARDS  6l 

the  objects  of  benevolence  to  be  commended  by  the  Convention 
to  the  churches. 

Thereupon  the  Convention  created  the  Ministers  and  Mission- 
aries Benefit  Board,  to  be  incorporated  in  the  State  of  New 
York.  This  Board  held  its  first  meeting  August  15,  1911,  when 
Dr.  Henry  L.  Morehouse  was  elected  president  and  acting  trea- 
surer; Rev.  P.  C.  Wright,  recording  secretary;  and  Rev.  E.  T. 
Tomlinson,  executive  secretary.  The  Act  of  Incorporation  re- 
ceived the  signature  of  the  governor  of  New  York  March 
24,  1913. 

The  immediate  task  before  the  Board  was  to  secure  $200,000 
to  meet  the  conditions  of  the  pledge  of  $50,000.  The  response  of 
the  denomination  was  immediate.  On  June  17,  1913,  the  first 
grants  were  voted.  These  were  twelve  in  number,  and  have  since 
increased  to  nearly  four  hundred. 

The  Board  is  composed  of  twenty-one  members;  the  term 
of  service  of  each  member  is  three  years.  Seven  are  nominated 
annually  by  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Northern  Baptist 
Convention,  and  are  elected  by  the  Convention  itself.  At  present 
the  Board  is  composed  of  eleven  prominent  business  men  and 
ten  of  our  foremost  ministers. 

The  work  of  the  Board  comprises : 

1.  Care  of  aged  and  dependent  worthy  Baptist  ministers  and 
missionaries,  their  widows  and  dependent  children. 

2.  Pensions.     As   soon  as  proper  provision   shall  have  been 
made  for  relief  work,  the  Board  is  prepared  to  adopt  plans  pro- 
viding for  retiring  pensions. 

3.  Studies  in  the  present  conditions  of  the  Baptist  ministry. 
These  have  included  investigations  as  to  the  salaries  received, 
the  number  of  churchless  pastors  and  pastorless  churches,  the 
relative  number  leaving  the  ministry,  where  the  old  ministers  are, 
the  conditions  of  ordination,  numbers  of  students  for  the  min- 
istry, and  various  other  phases  of  the  life  and  work  of  our 
ministers. 

At  present  the  grants  of  the  Board  have  been  limited  to  cases 
of  relief.  A  careful  estimate  places  the  number  of  those  in  need 
at  seven  hundred  out  of  a  total  of  thirteen  thousand  ministers, 


62          A    MANUAL   OF   THE    NORTHERN    BAPTIST   CONVENTION 

missionaries,  widows,  and  orphan  children  under  eighteen  years 
of  age.  How  much  is  required  for  a  successful  prosecution  of 
the  work  can  be  estimated  from  the  fact  that  a  modest  grant  of 
$20  per  month  requires  $168,000  annually.  This  amount  is  the 
income  of  three  and  one-half  millions.  The  budget  of  the  Bene- 
fit Board  is  submitted  for  approval  to  the  Finance  Committee  of 
the  Northern  Baptist  Convention,  and  is  in  turn  submitted  by 
that  Committee  to  the  Apportionment  Committee  of  the  same 
body.  The  latter  committee,  after  approval,  assigns  the  appor- 
tionments by  States,  and  then  the  State  Apportionment  Commit- 
tees suggest  to  the  churches  the  amount  each  should  place  in 
its  budget. 

In  every  State  a  Committee  of  Cooperation  with  the  Benefit 
Board  is  appointed  by  the  State  Convention.  Applications  from 
any  State  are  first  submitted  for  approval  to  the  State  Coopera- 
tive Committee.  No  grant  is  made  until  the  Benefit  Board  has 
formally  taken  action.  A  thorough  investigation  of  every  ap- 
plication is  made.  It  is  the  purpose  of  the  Board  to  place  this 
work  not  upon  a  basis  of  charity,  but  of  justice  and  business. 
At  present  the  Board  is  making  grants  in  thirty-five  States. 
The  committees  of  the  Board  are :  Executive,  Finance,'  Applica- 
tions, and  Accounts. 

The  endowment  has  steadily  increased  until  now  in  the  treasury 
of  the  Benefit  Board  and  in  the  cooperative  States  it  amounts 
to  nearly  $2,000,000.  The  need  of  increasing  this  fund  is 
tragically  manifest.  Among  the  largest  donors  have  been  "  A 
Man  from  Pennsylvania,"  Mr.  Ambrose  Swasey,  "  A  Baptist 
Layman,"  Mr.  John  D.  Rockefeller,  and  others. 

In  honor  and  loving  memory  of  the  man  to  whom  the  Benefit 
Board  owes  its  existence  and  to  which  he  offered  to  give  nearly 
all  his  possessions,  the  Board  has  been  authorized  by  the  North- 
ern Baptist  Convention  to  increase  its  permanent  funds  by 
raisins:  the  Morehouse  Memorial  Million. 


THE    CONVENTION    BOARDS  63 


ACT  OF  INCORPORATION 

Chapter  107  of  the  Laws  of  1913 
of  the  State  of  New  York. 

AN  ACT  TO  INCORPORATE  THE  MINISTERS  AND  MISSIONARIES 
BENEFIT  BOARD  OF  THE  NORTHERN  BAPTIST  CONVENTION 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York,  represented  in  Senate 
and  Assembly,  do  enact  as  follows : 

SECTION  i.  William  A.  Davison,  W.  Howard  Doane,  George 
G.  Dutcher,  Charles  A.  Eaton,  Edwin  P.  Farnham,  Clarence 
M.  Gallup,  Frank  M.  Goodchild,  Arthur  M.  Harris,  Edward  H. 
Haskell,  Luther  Keller,  Andrew  MacLeish,  Henry  L.  Morehouse, 
Charles  H.  Prescott,  Jr.,  Eli  S.  Reinhold,  William  S.  Shallen- 
berger,  Charles  M.  Thorns,  Andrew  K.  Van  Deventer,  Homer  J. 
Vosburgh,  Herbert  J.  White,  Joseph  K.  Wilson,  and  Peter  C. 
Wright,  and  their  successors  are  hereby  constituted  a  body  cor- 
porate with  the  name,  "  The  Ministers  and  Missionaries  Bene- 
fit Board  of  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention,"  and  under  that 
name  shall  have  perpetual  succession  and  shall  have  the  right, 
either  absolutely  or  in  trust,  to  purchase  or  to  acquire  by  gift, 
devise,  bequest,  or  otherwise,  and  to  sell,  convey,  or  otherwise 
dispose  of,  any  real  or  personal  property. 

SEC.  2.  The  objects  of  the  corporation  shall  be  to  administer  its 
funds  for  the  benefit  of  worthy  Baptist  ministers  and  Baptist 
missionaries,  their  wives,  or  widows,  and  their  dependent  chil- 
dren, either  directly  or  through  the  medium  of  related  organiza- 
tions; to  cooperate  with  such  organizations  in  securing,  .so  far 
as  practicable,  uniformity  in  the  methods  for  the  extension  of 
such  aid,  to  promote  interest  in  the  better  maintenance  of  the 
ministry,  and  to  adopt  such  measures  to  these  ends  as  may  be 
recommended  by  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention. 

SEC.  3.  The  twenty-one  incorporators  named  in  Section  I  of 
this  act  shall  be  so  divided  at  their  first  meeting  that  seven  shall 
serve  for  three  years,  seven  shall  serve  for  two  years,  and  seven 
shall  serve  for  one  year,  and  each  shall  serve  until  his  successor 
is  chosen,  and  as  these  respective  terms  expire  seven  shall  be 


64          A    MANUAL   OF   THE    NORTHERN    BAPTIST   CONVENTION 

appointed  by  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention  to  serve  for  three 
years,  and  said  Convention  shall  have  also  the  power  to  fill 
vacancies  caused  by  death,  resignation,  or  otherwise. 

SEC.  4.  The  body  hereby  corporated  may  elect  or  appoint  such 
officers  as  to  it  may  seem  proper,  and,  subject  to  the  confirmation 
of  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention,  said  body  may  adopt  such 
by-laws  or  regulations  in  relation  to  its  organization,  to  the  man- 
agement and  disposition  and  sale  of  its  real  or  personal  property, 
to  the  duties  and  powers  of  its  officers,  and  to  the  management 
and  conduct  of  its  corporate  affairs  as  it  shall  think  proper,  pro- 
vided such  by-laws  or  regulations  are  not  inconsistent  with  the 
laws  of  the  United  States  or  of  this  State.  It  shall  present  a 
written  annual  report  to  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention  at  each 
of  its  annual  meetings,  and  the  said  Convention  shall  have  the 
power  to  instruct  the  body  hereby  incorporated  in  respect  to  its 
general  policies. 

SEC.  5.  Meetings  of  the  corporation  may  be  held  at  such  time 
or  times  and  at  such  place  or  places  in  the  United  States  as  the 
corporation  may  determine,  subject,  however,  to  the  right  of  the 
Northern  Baptist  Convention  to  fix  the  time  and  place  of  any 
meeting  of  the  corporation. 

SEC.  6.    This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


BY-LAWS 

Of  the  Ministers  and  Missionaries  Benefit  Board  of  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention 

ARTICLE  I 

The  executive  powers  of  the  corporation  shall  be  vested  in  the 
twenty-one  incorporators  and  their  successors,  who  shall  be  called 
Managers. 

ARTICLE  II 

MEETINGS 

The  annual  corporate  meeting  shall  be  held  as  soon  as  prac- 
ticable after  the  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  Northern  Baptist 


THE   CONVENTION    BOARDS  65 

Convention  at  such  time  and  place  as  may  be  designated  by  the 
Executive  Committee  of  this  Board,  unless  some  other  time  shall 
be  fixed  by  the  Managers  on  conference  with  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention. 

Regular  meetings  of  the  Managers  shall  be  held  on  the  second 
Tuesday  in  April  and  November.  Special  meetings  may  be  called 
at  any  time  by  the  President,  and  shall  be  called  at  any  time  on 
the  written  request  of  any  two  Managers.  Written  notice  of  all 
meetings  shall  be  mailed  at  least  ten  days  previous  to  the  meeting. 
Nine  Managers  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  business,  and  a  less 
number  may  adjourn  to  a  definite  time. 

ARTICLE  III 

OFFICERS 

SECTION  i.  There  shall  be  a  President,  Vice-president,  Execu- 
tive Secretary,  Recording  Secretary,  and  Treasurer,  who  shall  be 
elected  annually  by  the  Managers. 

SEC.  2.  The  President  shall  preside  at  all  corporate  meetings 
and  at  meetings  of  the  Managers,  shall  appoint  committees,  ex- 
cept when  otherwise  provided ;  and  shall  exercise  a  general  super- 
vision over  the  affairs  of  the  corporation. 

SEC.  3.  In  case  of  the  absence  of  the  President  or  his  inability 
to  serve,  his  duties  shall  be  performed  by  the  Vice-president. 

SEC.  4.  The  Executive  Secretary  shall  conduct  the  correspon- 
dence of  the  Managers,  shall  send  notices  by  mail  to  them  of  the 
times  and  places  of  their  meetings,  shall  prepare  a  docket  of 
business  to  be  transacted  at  each  meeting,  shall  keep  an  accurate 
record  of  all  grants  to  beneficiaries  and  of  the  sums  paid  to  them, 
shall  inform  the  chairman  of  each  committee  of  the  names  of  its 
members  and  of  the  purpose  for  which  it  was  appointed,  and  shall 
prepare  the  annual  report  for  the  Northern  Baptist  Conven- 
tion in  time  for  the  submission  of  the  report  to  the  Managers  be- 
fore the  meeting  of  the  Convention.  He  shall  perform  such  other 
duties  as  the  Managers  may  direct.  He  shall  furnish  a  copy  of 
the  annual  report  to  all  the  members  of  the  Board. 

SEC.  5.  The  Recording  Secretary  shall  keep  a  record  of  all 
proceedings  of  all  meetings  in  a  book  provided  for  the  purpose. 


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I  lc  shall  also  send  a  copy  of  the  minutes  of  each  meeting  to  every 
member  of  the  Board. 

SEC.  6.  The  Treasurer  shall  receive  all  moneys  belonging  to 
the  corporation,  keep  an  accurate  account  thereof  and  of  the 
sources  from  which  they  were  derived  and  deposit  them  in  the 
name  of  the  corporation  in  such  banks  or  other  places  of  deposit 
as  the  Finance  Committee  may  designate.  He  shall  have  the 
custody  of  the  corporate  seal.  Payments  to  beneficiaries,  salaries, 
and  other  current  expenses  shall  be  made  on  the  direction  of  the 
Managers.  All  other  payments  shall  be  made  only  on  the  written 
order  of  the  Finance  Committee  of  the  Managers.  The  Treasurer 
shall  give  security  by  corporate  bond  for  the  faithful  perform- 
ance of  his  duties  and  in  such  amount  as  shall  be  fixed  from  time 
to  time  by  the  Board  of  Managers. 

SEC.  7.  The  President  and  Executive  Secretary  are  authorized 
with  the  written  assent  of  the  Finance  Committee  to  execute  and 
deliver  in  the  name  of  the  corporation  and  under  its  corporate 
seal  any  refunding  bond  which  may  be  required  in  order  to  receive 
any  legacy  bequeathed  to  the  corporation  and  such  other  instru- 
ments as  may  be  required  by  said  committee  in  the  management 
of  the  corporate  investments  and  in  the  prosecution  of  the  work. 

ARTICLE  IV 

COMMITTEES 

SECTION  I.  The  following  committees  shall  be  appointed  an- 
nually: Executive  Committee,  Finance  Committee,  Committee  of 
Accounts,  Committee  on  Applications. 

SEC.  2.  The  Executive  Committee  shall  consist  of  seven  mem- 
bers. It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  committee  to  care  for  the  interest 
of  the  corporation  between  the  meetings  of  the  Managers,  to  at- 
tend to  such  other  business  as  may  be  referred  to  it.  The  com- 
mittee shall  keep  a  careful  record  of  its  proceedings  and  report  to 
the  Board. 

SEC.  3.  The  Finance  Committee  shall  consist  of  three  mem- 
bers. It  shall  have  supervision  of  the  funds  of  the  corporation  and 
of  the  investments  and  reinvestments  thereof;  it  shall  take  mea- 
sures to  secure  to  the  corporation  all  property  and  funds  devised 


THE    CONVENTION    BOARDS  67 

or  given  to  it.  All  investments  shall  be  made  in  such  securities  as 
are  sanctioned  by  the  laws  of  New  York  relating  to  investments 
by  trustees.  At  the  regular  meeting  in  April  and  whenever  re- 
quired by  the  Managers,  the  committee  shall  make  a  full  written 
financial  report. 

SEC.  4.  The  Committee  of  Accounts  shall  consist  of  two  mem- 
bers, who  shall  examine  the  accounts  and  vouchers  of  the  Trea- 
surer semiannually,  and  shall  make  a  written  annual  report  to 
the  Managers  at  the  regular  meeting  in  April. 

SEC.  5.  The  Committee  on  Applications  shall  consist  of  five 
members.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  committee  to  examine  and 
report  upon  all  applications  for  aid,  and  to  ascertain  and  report 
whether  the  amount  of  any  aid  granted  should  be  increased,  re- 
duced, or  discontinued. 

.  ARTICLE  V 

APPLICATION    FOR  AID 

All  applications  for  aid  must  be  made  in  writing  on  such  forms 
as  shall  be  provided  by  the  Managers. 

ARTICLE  VI 

These  By-laws  may  be  amended  at  any  meeting  of  the  Man- 
agers, by  a  majority  of  the  Board  voting  affirmatively,  provided 
written  notice  of  the  proposed  amendment  shall  have  been  given 
at  a  previous  meeting,  and  also  that  a  copy  of  the  proposed  change 
shall  have  been  mailed  to  each  member  of  the  Board  at  least  ten 
days  previous  to  the  meeting. 


68 


A    MANUAL   OF   THE   NORTHERN    BAPTIST   CONVENTION 


THE  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  BOARD 


Term  expires  1918 

Trevor  Arnett,  Chicago,  111. 
Prof.  E.  D.  Burton,  Chicago,  111. 
Rev.  E.  R.  Curry,  Boulder,  Colo. 
E.  A.  Deeds,  Dayton,  Ohio. 
C.  A.  Marsh,  Chicago,  111. 
Pres.  S.  E.  Price,  Ottawa,  Kans. 

Term  expires  1919 

Pres.    C.   A.    Barbour,    Rochester, 

N.  Y. 
Rev.  J.  W.  Brougher,  Los  Angeles, 

Cal. 
Rev.  E.  A.  Hanley,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 


Rev.  E.  W.  Hunt,  Newton  Center, 

Mass. 

Prof.  Paul  Monroe,  New  York  City. 
Pres.    L.    W.    Riley,    McMinnville, 

Ore. 
Hon.  E.  L.  Tustin,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Term  expires  1920 

Prof.  J.  S.  Brown,  Joliet,  111. 

Rev.  A.  K.  Foster,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

L.  S.  Gillette,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Pres.  G.  E.  Horr,  Newton  Center, 
Mass. 

Prof.  A,  W.  Small,  Chicago,  111. 

Rev.  J.  M.  Stifler,  Evanston,  111. 

Chancellor  Frank  Strong,  Law- 
rence, Kans. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  BOARD  FOR  SEVEN  YEARS 


1912-  Padelford,  Rev.  F.  W.,  Ex- 
ecutive Secretary,  Boston,  Mass. 

1915-,  Arnett,  Trevor,  Chicago,  111. 

1911-,  Barbour,  Pres.  C.  A.,  Roches- 
ter, N.  Y. 

1912-,  Brougher,  Rev.  J.  W.,  Los 
Angeles,  Cal. 

1914-,  Brown,  Prof.  J.  S.,  Joliet, 
111. 

1911-,  Burton,  Prof.  E.  D.,  Chicago, 
111. 

1912-1913,  Chandler,  C.  Q.,  Wichita, 
Kans. 

1911-1914,  Clarke,  Sidney,  Grand 
Forks,  N.  Dak. 

1915-1916,  Colgate,  Sidney,  Orange, 
N.  J. 

1911-,  Curry,  Rev.  E.  R.,  Boulder, 
Colo. 

1916-,  Deeds,  E.  A.,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

1912-1914,  Ewart,  A.  W.,  Pierre,  S. 
Dak. 


1911-1915,  Faunce,  Pres.  W.  H.  P., 
Providence,  R.  I. 

1912-1913,  Fosdick,  Rev.  H.  E., 
Montclair,  N.  J. 

1912-,  Foster,  Rev.  A.  K.,  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y. 

1912-1915,  Franklin,  J.  E.,  Colorado 
Springs,  Colo.  \ 

1912-1913,  1914-,  Gillette,  L.  S., 
Minneapolis,  Minn. 

1913-,  Hanley,  Rev.  E.  A.,  Roches- 
ter, N.  Y. 

1912-1913,  Herget,  Rev.  J.  F.,  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio. 

1911-,  Horr,  Pres.  G.  E.,  Newton 
Center,  Mass. 

1911-,  Hunt,  Rev.  E.  W.,  Newton 
Center,  Mass. 

1913-   Marsh,  C.  A.,  Chicago,  111. 

1913-,  Monroe,  Prof.  Paul,  New 
York  City. 


THE   CONVENTION    BOARDS  69 

1915-,   Price,  Pres.   S.  E.,  Ottawa,  1911-,    Strong,    Chancellor    Frank, 

Kans.  Lawrence,  Kans. 

1911-,  Riley,  Pres.  L.  W.,  McMinn-  1912-1914,  Townson,  A.  J.,  Roches- 

ville,  Ore.  ter,  N.  Y. 

1914-,  Small,  Prof.  A.  W.,  Chicago,  1912-,  Tustin,   E.  L.,  Philadelphia, 

111.  Pa. 

1912-,  Stilwell,  Rev.  H.  R,  Cleve-  1912-1913,   Whidden,   Rev.   H.   P., 

land,  Ohio.  Dayton,  Ohio. 

1912-,  Stifler,  Rev.  J.  M.,  Evanston,  1912-1915,     Woelfkin,     Rev.     Cor- 

111.  nelius,  New  York  City. 


WORK  OF  THE  BOARD 
By  Rev.  Frank  W.  Padelford,  Executive  Secretary 

THE  first  steps  in  the  creation  of  a  Baptist  Board  of  Educa- 
tion were  taken  at  the  session  of  the  Northern  Baptist  Con- 
vention in  1909.     The  following  resolution  was  adopted  by  the 
Convention : 

Resolved,  That  a  committee  be  created  by  this  Convention  and  be 
instructed  to  prepare  and  present  one  year  hence  a  report  on  the  sub- 
ject of  denominational  education. 

As  appointed,  this  was  a  notable  committee,  consisting  of  many 
of  our  leaders  in  education,  including  fourteen  college  presidents, 
two  former  presidents,  one  professor,  and  two  pastors.  It  was 
known  as  the  "  Committee  on  Denominational  Relation  to  Edu- 
cational Institutions." 

This  committee  presented  a  most  carefully  prepared  and 
elaborate  report  at  the  next  session  of  the  Convention  in  1910. 
It  recommended  that  the  Convention  create  a  Board  of  Educa- 
tion and  that  the  Executive  Committee  appoint  a  board  of  nine 
members.  The  failure  of  the  Executive  Committee  to  appoint 
the  Board  until  the  following  March  made  it  impossible  to  make 
any  progress  during  that  year.  At  the  Convention  in  1911,  a 
by-law  was  adopted  making  provision  for  a  permanent  Board 
of  Education. 

During  the  year  1911-1912  the  new  Board  made  a  careful 
survey  of  the  educational  situation  in  the  denomination  and 
called  an  educational  conference  in  Des  Moines  on  the  day  pre- 


7O          A    MANUAL   OF   THE    NORTHERN    BAPTIST   CONVENTION 

ceding  the  Convention.  Much  interest  and  enthusiasm  was  mani- 
fest at  this  meeting  which  marked  a  distinct  point  of  advance 
in  the  development  of  the  educational  work  of  the  denomina- 
tion. The  Convention  increased  the  Board  to  twenty-one  mem- 
bers, correlated  it  with  the  American  Baptist  Education  Society, 
a  corporation  chartered  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  New 
York  in  1888,  authorized  the  appointment  of  a  salaried  secretary, 
and  provided  a  budget  of  $7,500. 

This  action  of  the  Convention  enabled  the  Board  to  inaugurate 
its  work  on  a  definite  and  permanent  basis.  In  November 
Dr.  Frank  W.  Padelford,  of  Boston,  became  its  executive  secre- 
tary and  the  active  work  of  the  Board  began. 

The  Board  consists  of  twenty-one  members,  seven  of  whom 
are  appointed  each  year  by  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
Convention.  While  there  is  no  by-law  which  requires  it,  about 
one-third  of  the  members  are  educators,  one-third  laymen,  and 
one-third  ministers.  This  ratio  has  been  preserved  as  nearly  as 
possible  since  1912. 

By  constitutional  arrangement  the  Board  of  Education  is  also 
the  Board  of  Managers  of  the  American  Baptist  Education  So- 
ciety, which  corporation  is  entitled  to  hold  funds.  This  organ- 
ization acted  for  many  years  as  the  distributer  of  Mr.  Rockefel- 
ler's educational  benefactions.  The  headquarters  of  both  Boards 
are  at  Chicago,  where  all  meetings  except  the  annual  are  held. 
The  business  office  is  in  the  Ford  Building,  Boston. 

In  1912  when  the  Board  was  reorganized  and  enlarged,  Dr. 
Ernest  D.  Burton,  of  Chicago,  was  made  chairman,  and  this 
position  he  still  holds.  When  in  1915  the  Board  was  ready  to 
enter  actively  into  financial  campaigns  for  schools,  Dr.  John  S. 
Lyon,  of  Massachusetts,  was  elected  field  secretary.  In  1917 
the  financial  work  of  the  Board  had  so  increased  that  Rev.  Walter 
J.  Sparks,  of  Philadelphia,  was  also  elected  a  field  secretary. 
These  men  devote  all  their  time  to  assisting  schools  and  colleges 
to  raise  endowment  funds.  Mr.  Frank  L.  Miner,  of  Des  Moines, 
has  been  treasurer  from  the  first. 

The  budget  of  the  Board  for  the  year  1912-1913  amounted 
to  $1,260.  For  the  year  1917-1918  the  expense  will  be  approxi- 
mately $30,000.  These  figures  somewhat  indicate  the  expansion 
of  the  Board's  activities.  Until  the  year  1917  the  expenses  of 


THE    CONVENTION    BOARDS  7 1 

the  Board  were  met  by  appropriations  from  the  treasury  of 
the  Convention,  the  same  being  guaranteed  by  the  cooperating 
missionary  Societies.  The  Board  now  has  an  apportionment  of 
S  100,000  to  the  churches,  and  its  expenses  are  met  directly  from 
this  fund. 

For  the  first  two  years  the  Board  devoted  most  of  its 
energy  to  an  intimate  and  personal  survey  of  our  whole  educa- 
tional situation.  Practically  every  school  has  been  visited,  its 
educational  work  carefully  studied,  and  its  financial  conditions 
examined.  The  Board  determined  that  when  the  time  came  to 
make  financial  appeals,  it  would  have  a  thorough  knowledge  of 
the  situation  and  would  appeal  only  for  such  institutions  as  proved 
their  soundness  and  their  worth.  An  immense  amount  of  in- 
formation has  been  gathered  and  the  Board  knows  our  entire 
educational  situation  intimately. 

The  Board  has  undertaken  to  do  three  distinct  things.  First, 
it  is  endeavoring  to  create  a  wider  interest  in  the  education  of 
our  children  on  the  part  of  our  entire  constituency.  The  first 
survey  revealed  indisputable  evidence  that  Baptists  do  not  have 
a  sufficiently  strong  interest  in  this  matter.  The  investigation 
proved  that  in  two  hundred  and  twenty  institutions  reporting 
in  thirty-four  States,  the  Congregationalists  had  one  student  in 
college  for  every  sixty-nine  members  in  their  churches ;  the  Pres- 
byterians, one  for  every  seventy  members ;  the  Methodists,  one 
for  every  one  hundred  and  forty-three;  and  the  Baptists,  one 
student  for  every  one  hundred  and  seventy-six  members. 

Realizing  that  no  body  of  Christians  can  make  an  adequate 
contribution  to  the  kingdom  without  trained  leadership  and  an 
educated  constituency,  the  Board  has  conceived  that  its  funda- 
mental task  is  the  development  of  an  educational  interest  among 
our  people.  It  has  endeavored  to  create  this  interest  by  addresses 
in  churches,  associations,  and  conventions,  by  frequent  articles 
in  the  denominational  papers  and  State  bulletins,  and  by  wide 
distribution  of  leaflets,  pamphlets,  and  books.  A  rapidly  de- 
veloping interest  is  now  apparent  in  nearly  every  section  of  the 
Convention  territory.  No  actual  survey  of  the  college  situation 
has  been  made  since  1912,  and  no  adequate  survey  can  now 'be 
made  until  at  least  two  years  after  the  war  has  closed.  But  there 
is  evidence  sufficient  to  prove  that  an  awakening  is  already  taking 


72          A    MANUAL   OF   THE   NORTHERN    BAPTIST   CONVENTION 

place.  The  accomplishment  of  this  purpose  alone  would  seem- 
ingly justify  the  action  of  the  Convention  in  creating  the  Board 
of  Education. 

As  its  second  task  the  Board  has  endeavored  to  provide  for 
the  moral  and  religious  interests  of  Baptist  students  in  the  great 
State  universities.     A  census  of  the  State  universities  in  1914 
revealed  the  fact  that  there  were  7,086  Baptist  young  people 
registered  in  our  State  universities,  of  whom  4,866  were  in  the 
Northern  States.    These  groups  run  all  the  way  from  six  students 
in  Ohio  University  to  five  hundred  and  fifty  in  the  University 
of  Michigan.    The  ministry  to  the  religious  life  of  these  future 
leaders  is  of  the  greatest  importance.    To  the  accomplishment  of 
this  end  the  Board  has  adopted  various  methods  adapted  to  the 
various  situations.     It  has  assisted  churches  in  the  employment 
of  pastors  qualified  to  minister  to  students.     It  has  employed 
graduate  students  to  assist  the  pastors.     It  has  employed  young 
men  as  university  pastors  to  give  all  their  time  in  connection 
with  the  local  church,  to  work  among  students.    Where  the  num- 
ber of  Baptist  students  has  seemed  to  warrant  it,  the  last  method 
has  been  found  to  be  most  effective.     Until  the  war  withdrew 
many  of  our  men  for  our  national  service,  the  Board  was  con- 
ducting this  service  in  eighteen  universities  and  had  stimulated 
similar  work  by  local  churches  in  five  other  universities.     The 
Board  had  nine  men  and  one  woman  giving  entire  time  to  stu- 
dents, and  seven  men  and  women  giving  part  time.     These  uni- 
versity pastors  and  student  secretaries  were  ministering  to  over 
four  thousand  Baptist  students.     They  reached  in  one  way  or 
another  over  three  thousand  of  them.    They  had  1,728  enrolled 
in  Bible  classes  and  made  over  five  thousand  pastoral  calls  a  year 
upon  them.     They  counted  an  average  attendance  of  these  stu- 
dents at  morning  worship  of  over  eleven  hundred.     By  this 
ministry  the  interest  of  many   Baptist  young  people   in  their 
churches  has  been  maintained  during  this  critical  period  of  their 
lives,  many  church  leaders  have  been  trained,  and  not  a  few 
have  been  induced  to  devote  their  lives  to  the  ministry  and 
missionary  service.    The  results  have  been  beyond  measure. 

Jn  the  third  place  the  activities  of  the  Board  have  been  directed 
toward  aiding  our  schools  and  colleges.  Careful  surveys  have 
been  made  in  practically  every  one  of  our  central  and  western 


THE    CONVENTION    BOARDS  73 

fields.  Presidents  and  trustees  have  been  assisted  in  shaping 
policies.  The  Board  has  outlined  a  campaign  to  raise  at  least 
six  million  dollars  for  our  schools  during  the  period  of  the  Five 
Year  Program.  It  has  rendered  direct  personal  assistance  to  at 
least  seventeen  schools  and  colleges  in  raising  funds.  In  several 
cases  it  has  taken  direct  charge  of  the  financial  campaigns. 

It  is  impossible  to  state  the  amount  of  funds  which  have  been 
added  to  our  institutions  during  the  period  of  the  life  of  the 
Board.  No  inquiry  in  this  direction  has  been  made.  During 
the  first  two  years  of  the  Five  Year  Program  period  there  were 
added  to  our  educational  funds  $6,968,905,  of  which  $3,916,645 
was  received  by  the  University  of  Chicago,  $433,838  by  our 
mission  schools,  and  $2,618,421  by  our  other  Baptist  schools  and 
colleges  at  home.  There  is  therefore  every  indication  that  with- 
out counting  the  funds  accruing  to  the  University  of  Chicago, 
our  other  institutions  will  receive  the  full  six  million  dollars 
before  the  Five  Year  Program  period  ends.  Last  April  the 
Board  reported  that  there  were  twenty-three  schools  and  col- 
leges engaged  in  financial  campaigns  amounting  to  $7,450,000. 
At  that  time  the  amount  pledged  toward  this  sum  was  $2,016,919. 
Since  that  time  several  other  campaigns  have  been  brought  to 
a  successful  conclusion.  The  Board  of  Education  makes  no  claim 
to  have  raised  all  this  money,  but  there  can  be  no  question 
that  the  success  has  been  due  in  large  part  to  the  new  educational 
spirit  which  has  been  created  in  the  denomination  as  a  result 
of  the  activities  of  the  Board.  The  six  million  dollars  suggested 
in  the  Five  Year  Program  do  not  cover  all  the  financial  needs 
of  our  schools.  The  Board  reckons  these  to  be  not  less  than 
$14,000,000,  and  this  amount  will  be  increased  by  the  new  needs 
created  by  the  war.  The  Board  is  now  laying  plans  to  carry  its 
campaign  way  beyond  the  six  million  dollars,  until  the  many 
needs  of  our  schools  are  adequately  met. 


Table  Xiimbcr  I 

BAPTIST  EDUCATIONAL  INSTITUTIONS  IN  THE 
NORTHERN  STATES 


M 

1 

.a 

•Q  in 

•o 

«  j? 

« 

s 

"•5                    o 

Name 

Location 
II 

Bjl 

Ucfl 

c        £> 

2"O             3 
3               0 

o  i           n 
H'X        fa 

o 

6 
'K 

"M 

21 

K>  n 

E 
•f 

o 
•e 
d 

W 

o 
o 

c 

.  Hamilton,  N.  Y.    ... 

38 
i 
6 

8; 

7 
52 
4^ 

0 
2 
14 

I 

I 

3 
i 

10 

i 

[Included 
$200,00 
[Included  in 
150,00 
217,75 

in  Colgate 
$813.66 
Universit 
23.50 
911,24 

University] 
$40,672 
of  Chicago] 
20,890 
41,000 

.  Upland,    Pa  

Chicago    

.  Chicago,    111  
.   Kansas   City,   Kans. 

.  Newton  Center,  Mas 

Northern    
Berkeley    
Rochester    

.  Chicago,    111  
.Berkeley,  Cal  
.  Rochester,   N.   Y.    .  . 

22,00 
44i,97 

13,00 
1,814,13 

5,825 
75,141 

8  Theologies 

60 

99 

3 

$1,031,72 

$3-577.54 

$183,528 

:, 

ti 
i 
IS 

Ij 

14 

;. 

10 

?> 
l< 

44 
II 
1 
4. 
;_ 
J. 
j-i 
i; 
at 

2~ 

at 

3Q 

30 
31 
3- 

Bates    
Brown    
Bucknell    
Carleton     
Chicago    
Colby    
Colgate     

.  Lewiston,  Me  
Providence,  R.  I. 
Lewisburg,   Pa  
Xorthfield,  Minn.    .  . 
Chicago,  111  
Waterville,    Me.     .  .  . 
Hamilton,  N.  Y.    ... 
.  Denver,    Colo  

47 
1,13 
66 
48 
3,36 
42 

1 

57 

26; 
6 
7 
230 
26 
[Clo 
17 
133 
227 
140 
So 

\H 

I652° 
289 
1,122 

47 
i,i3 
66 

7,98 

4^ 

58 

13 

57 
15 
26; 
137 
224 
340 
26 
sed] 

112 
263 

393 
183 
320 
564 
130 
123 
308 
450 

1,122 

2 

8 
3 
4 

43 
3 

4 

i 

5 
i 

i 

i 

2. 
22 

I 

I 
2O 
2O 
II 
46 
15 

i 

2< 

i; 
3 

i 
I 

i 

i 

i 

12 

IJ 
2O 

*$597,I7 

2,120,00 
630,00 

755.68 
11,297,86 
368,89 
2,000,00 
200,00 
1,250,00 
160,965 
2ii,73 
127.15 
177,00 
175.732 
211,83 
170,00 
70,600 
9i,97 
120,000 
251,709 
30,000 
i.SSS.ooo 
105,223 
125,000 
250,000 
517.197 
3,460,60! 

'$885,79 
4.581,91 
775,30 
995,32 
22,239,86 
873,92 
2,225,00 

•$89,809 
332,134 
200,000 
130,205 
1,780,996 
99,016 
165,000 
17,700 
110,000 
32,419 
53,104 
I5,i95 
*i5,ooo 
34,26i 
46,096 

Denison    
Francis    Shimer    .  .  . 
Franklin    
Grand   Islarul    

Granville,    Ohio     .  .  . 
Mt.  Carroll,   111.    ... 
Franklin,    Ind  
Grand  Island,  Neb. 
Mexico,    Mo     

1,200,00 
79,29 
359,37 
49,70 
98,00 
402,00 
622,40 
30,00 
7,03 
r22,n 
255,95 
99,6s 
85,000 
2,338,000 
175,908 

Hillsdale    

Hillsdale,    Mich.     .  . 

Kalamazoo,    Mich.    . 
Keuka  Park,  N.  Y. 
La  Grange,  Mo.    .  .  . 
McMinnville,   Ore.    . 
Ottawa,    Kans  
Redlands,    Cal  
Rio   Grande,    Ohio    . 
Rochester,   N.   Y.    .. 
Alton,    111  
Sioux    Falls,    S.    Dak 
Columbia,    Mo  
Liberty,    Mo  
Poughkeepsie,    N.    Y 

Keuka          

La  Grange    

6,000 
38,517 
33,7i6 
31,664 
10,500 
154,000 
27,969 
12,318 
67,000 
37,621 
'674,869 

Ottawa    
Redlands    

Rochester    
Shurtleff    

28 
25 

I  li 

40,000 
324,129 

1,425,172 

William   Jewell    

33 
34 
[0 

35 
30 
37 

3* 

3<5 
4; 
•6 
43 
45 

40 

9 

4'? 
50 
51 
5« 
40 
5- 

53 

54 

" 
55 

11,532 

17,841 

1,1-1 

266 

$27,031,340 

$40,230,882 

$4,215,109 

Seattle,    Wash  

59 
142 

15 

$121,777 
150,000 

$7,166 
69,548 
11,000 
*  1  0,000 

5,491 

27,000 
12,062 
14,533 
16,966 
9,250 
59,219 
7,250 

20,335 
20,774 
174,930 
21,500 
47,000 
7,000 
*4,ooo 
40,000 

St.    Paul,    Minn.     .. 

Bucknell    

1  Lewisburg,   Pa  
Philippi,    W     Va.    .  .  . 

35 
200 

no 

150 

no 
75 
207 
76 
25 
136 
250 
352 
54 
225 
152 
US 
175 
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124 
150 
125 
296 

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8 

ii 
8 
9 
13 
6 
6 
10 

12 
24 

8 
13 

7 

12 
12 

13 

5 
7 
19 

2 

25,000 
175,000 
50,000 
200,000 
96,000 

200,000 
JIO.OOO 
5O,OOO 
230,079 

75,000 
'Included  in 
120,000 
120,400 
360,932 
140,000 
270,000 
60,000 
*30,ooo 
130,000 
125,000 
208,125 
40,000 
30,000 
'750,000 

$15,000 
45,678 
3,000 
33,510 
118,260 
15,524 
35,000 
222,116 
21,000 
Seminary] 
24,400 
53,972 
130,117 
14,000 
295,000 
22,700 

*22,000 
70,000 
76,OOO 
255,262 
44,156 
52,OOO 
*200,000 

Cedar  Valley    
Chicago    Training    .  .  . 
Coburn    

Osage,    Iowa    
Chicago,    111  

I 

8 
i 
i 
9 
4 
i 
6 
3 

12 

I 

8 

2 
I 

8 
6 

2 

2 

6 

Waterville,    Me  

Cook     Montour  Falls,  N.  Y. 
Doane     Granville,  Ohio   
Hebron     Hebron,    Me  
Higgins    Charleston,    Me  
Kansas   City  Training  Kansas  City,  Kans.    . 
Keystone    IFactoryville,  Pa  
Maine   Central                 Pittsfield.    Me  

Peddie    
Phila.  Training    
Pillsburv    

Hightstown,   N.   J. 
Philadelphia.    Pa.    ... 
Owatonna,    Minn.    .  .  . 

Ricker 

Houlton,    Me  

Southwestern    
Suffield     

Bolivar,   Mo  
Suffield,    Conn  

Vermont    

Saxtons  River,  Vt.    . 
Beaver  Dam,  Wis.   .  . 
Mt.   Pleasant,    Pa.    .  . 
Moores    Hill     Mo.    .  . 

[Clo 

tVayland    
Western   Penn  
Will   Mavfield    

44,247 
3,000 
4,100 
*5o,ooo 

Worcester,    Mass.     .  . 

26  Academies 

3.579 

263 

03 

$3,867,313 

$1,768,695 

$686,371 

6  1   Schools.. 

2.4.17 

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$11.  0.10,  .l8l 

$4.*.c.77.Il8 

$5,  085.008 

The  list  includes  a  few  schools  founded  by  Baptists,  but  not  now  under  Baptist  control. 
All  statistics  furnished  by  the  schools  except  those  *,  which  are  from  other  sources. 

In  seminary  figures  "  College  Students  "  means  college  graduates.     In  college  figures  it  means  students 
in  four  college  classes. 


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VII 
AFFILIATING  ORGANIZATIONS 


AFFILIATING  ORGANIZATIONS 


Legal   Title 


Executive  Officer 


Arizona      Baptist     Conven-  Rev.  T.  F.  McCourtney,  Cor-  L.   W.  Thayer,   M.  D.,  Phce- 
responding    Secretary,    2161      nix. 
Noll   Building,   Phoenix. 

Northern  California  Baptist  Rev.    C.    W.    Brinstad,    Cor-  'A.      E.      Caldwell       Oakland 
------  j:  —    c  ----  x  ----     -.0  of      Savings,      Oak- 


Convention. 


responding    Secretary,    35 
Blake    Building,    Oakland. 


land. 


Southern  California  Baptist -Rev.    W.    F.    Harper,    Corre- (George   E.    Reid,  Home   Sav- 
Convention.  i     spending      Secretary,      501       ings    Bank,   Los  Angeles. 

Columbia      Building,       Los 
Angeles. 


Colorado     Baptist     State 
Convention. 


Rev.    F.    B.    Palmer,    Corre-'F.    D.    Stackhouse,    368    Gas 
spending      Secretary,      368 1     &     Electric     Building, 
Gas    &    Electric    Building,  I     Denver. 
Denver. 


The     Connecticut    Baptist | Rev.    A.    B.    Coats,    General 


Convention. 


Secretary,    722    Asylum 
Avenue,   Hartford. 


Chas.  Edw.  Prior,  Security 
Trust  Company,  Hart- 
ford. 


Delaware     Baptist     S  t  a  t  e  N.    D.    Cloward,   Clerk,    906  jC.    H.    Cantwell,    706    North 
Convention.  Jefferson    Street,    Wilming-      Van     Buren     Street,     Wil- 

toii.  ;     mington. 

Columbia     Association     of.  Rev.     J.     W.     Many,     Clerk,  James      C.      Herring,      2548 
Baptist  Churches.  3304   Alabama   Avenue,!     Fourteenth   Street,   N.   W., 

S.  E.,  Washington,  D.  C.    ;     Washington,   D.  C. 

The     Idaho     Baptist     Con  Rev.    W.    H.    Bowler,    State  Dr.    S.    R.    Rightenour,    Em- 
vention    of   the    State    of|     Superintendent,     4:6     Em-  j     pire  Building,  Boise. 
Idaho.  pire  Building,   Boise. 


Illinois    Baptist   State    Con-  Rev.    E.    P.    Brand,    Superin- 
vention.  ,     tendent    of    Missions,    Nor- 

i     mal. 

The  Indiana  Baptist  Con-  Rev.  C.  M.  Dinsmore,  Gen- 
eral Superintendent  o  f 
State  Missions,  Indianapo- 
lis. 


L.  K.  Evans,  El  Paso. 


W.  A.  Burton,  Franklin. 


Iowa   Baptist  Convention. 


Rev.  G.  P.  Mitchell,  Mission-  J.     H.    Cochrane,    Des 

j     ary   Secretary,   507    S.   and       Moines. 
[     L.  Building,  Des  Moines.     ; 

The    Kansas    Baptist    Con-  Rev.    J.    T.    Crawford,    Mis-  Wayland   Campbell,   Topeka. 
vention.  j     sionary  Secretary,  Parsons. 


United    Baptist    Convention 
of  Maine. 

Massachusetts   Baptist   Mis- 
sionary Society. 


Michigan     Baptist    Conven- 


Minnesota    Baptist    State 
Convention. 


Rev.    I.    B.     Mower,    Corre-  George  M.  Graffam,  314  Ma- 


sponding  Secretary,  Water 
ville. 


sonic  Building,  Portland. 


Rev.  Hugh  A.  Heath,   Secre-  Edward  E.  Stevens,  707  Ford 


tary,    707    Ford    Building, 
Boston. 


Building,  Boston. 


Rev.    E.    M.    Lake     General  Walter     W.     Smith,     Vinton 
Secretary,    368    Capitol       Building,   Detroit. 
Bank  Building,  Lansing. 

Rev.  E.  R.  Pope,  Correspond-  J.  A.  Ridgway,  County  Court 


ing    Secretary,    405    Evans- 
ton   Building,    Minneapolis. 


House,   Minneapolis. 


Missouri     Baptist     General  Rev.   Joe   P.   Jacobs,    General  Lex  McDaniel. 
Association.  i      Secretary,  115  East  Thirty- 

|     first  Street,  Kansas  City.     1 

Montana     Baptist     Conven-  Rev.   G.   Clifford   Cress,   Cor-  R.  L.  Setzer,  Butte. 
tion.  responding     Secretary, 

Lewistown. 


79 


AFFILIATING  ORGANIZATIONS— Continued 


Legal  Title 


Executive   Officer 


Treasurer 


Nebraska  Baptist  S  t  a  t  e  Rev.  Ray  E.  York.  Superin- 
Convention.  tendent  of  Missions,  2635 

Garfield  Street,  Lincoln. 

The  Nevada-Sierra  Baptist  Rev.  G.  N.  Gardner,  Corre- 
Convention.  spending  Secretary,  Box 

743,  Reno. 

United  Baptist  Convention  Rev.  D.  S.  Jenks,  Secretary, 
of  New  Hampshire.  Franklin. 

New  Jersey  Baptist  Con-  Rev.  R.  M.  West,  Executive 
vention.  Secretary,  761  Broad 

i     Street,  Newark. 

Baptist  Missionary  Conven-  Rev.  W.  A.  Granger,  Presi- 
tion  of  the  State  of  dent  and  Chief  Executive, 
New  York.  23  East  Twenty-sixth  St., 

New  York  City. 

North  Dakota  Baptist  State  Rev.  C  E.  Tingley,  Corre- 
Convention. 


Ohio  Baptist  Convention. 


spending      Secretary,      517 
bouth  Sixth  Street,  Grand 


W.  E.  Rhoades.  United 
States  National  Bank. 
Omaha. 

Victor  Cokefair,  735  North 
Virginia  Street,  Reno. 

Lewis  E.  Staples,  Ports- 
mouth. 

B.   F.   Fowler,  Haddonfield. 


Orrin  R.  Judd,  23  East 
Twenty-sixth  Street,  New 
York  City. 


S.     C.     Hendrickson,     Grand 
Forks. 


Forks. 

Rev.  T.  F.  Chambers,  Execu-!E.  E.  Hopkins,  Granville. 
tive   Secretary,  Granville.     ! 


Oregon   Baptist   State   Con-  Rev.    O.    C.    Wright,    Corre- 

vention  spending     Secretary,      405 

Tilford  Building,  Portland. 

Pennsylvania    Baptist    Gen-  Rev.    C.    A.    Soars,    General 
eral  Convention.  Secretary,      1701     Chestnut 

Street,    Philadelphia. 

Rhode  Island  Baptist  State  i  Rev.    J.    Stewart,    Secretary,  F.  E.  Ballou,  Weybossett  and 


James      F.      Failing,      243 
Eleventh    Street,    Portland. 

I  A.    M.    Graves,    690    Bourse 
i     Building,    Philadelphia. 


Convention. 

South  Dakota  Baptist  Con- 
vention. 

Utah  Baptist  State  Conven- 
tion. 

403     Butler     Exchange, 
Providence. 

Rev.   S.  P.   Shaw,   Secretary, 
Sioux  Falls. 

Rev.   W.   H.    Bowler,    Corre- 
sponding     Secretary,      Box 
862,  Boise,  Idaho. 

Eddy  Streets,  Providence. 
E.  A.   Loomer,   Mitchell. 

J.  E.  Berkley,  Kearns  Build- 
ing, Salt  Lake  City. 

Vermont  Baptist  State  Con- 1  Rev.   W.   A.   Davison,   Secre- 
vention.  tary  _  and     Superintendent, 

Burlington. 

East  Washington  and  North  j  Rev.    A.    H.    Bailey,    Corre- 

Idaho   Baptist   Conven-      spending     Secretary     and 

tion.  Superintendent    of     C  o  n  - 

1     vention    Missions,    539 

Rookery    Building,     S  p  o  - 

i     kane. 

Western    Washington    Bap- i  Rev.    J.    H.    Beaven,    Corre- 
tist   Convention.  spending      Secretary,      323 

New  York  Block,  Seattle. 


Howard   Crane,   Burlington. 


R.    M.    Marshall,    210    Hyde 
Building,   Spokane. 


Gee.    W.    Fowler,    Equitable 
Building,  Tacoma. 


The   Baptist   General   Asso- 
ciation of  West  Virginia. 


Rev.    L.    B.     Moore,     Corre-  E.   H.   Flynn,   Parkersburg. 


spending 
kersburg. 


Secretary,     Par- 


Wisconsin    Baptist    S  t  a  t  e  Rev.  D.  W.  Hulburt,  General 
Convention.  Superintendent,  1717  Wells 


Wyoming    Baptist    State 
Convention. 

8o~ 


Street,    Milwaukee. 


H.  W.  Bardenwerper,  729 
Thirty-fourth  Street,  Mil- 
waukee. 


Rev.   J.    M.    Blodgett,    Corre-  L.  A.  Wolford,  Casper, 
spending  Secretary,  Casper. 


AFFILIATING   ORGANIZATIONS  8l 


RELATION  OF  THE  AFFILIATING    ORGANIZA- 
TIONS TO  THE  CONVENTION 

By  Secretary  E.  R.  Pope,  D.  D. 

IN  1907,  when  the  provisional  organization  of  the  Northern 
Baptist  Convention  was  made  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  the  con- 
stitution provided  "  that  officers  and  executive  boards  or 
committees  of  State  Conventions  .  .  .  may  be  ex-officio  mem- 
bers of  this  Convention."  At  that  time  there  were  State  organiza- 
tions in  nearly  all  the  territory  of  the  Northern  Baptist  Con- 
vention. California  had  two  organizations,  and  Washington  was 
divided  east  and  west,  while  the  latter  was  connected  with  Idaho. 
Utah  and  Nevada  had  no  organizations.  Two  bodies  had  been 
in  existence  for  one  hundred  years,  three  others  were  organized 
before  the  American  Baptist  Publication  Society,  and  ten  more 
before  the  organization  of  the  Home  Mission  Society.  The 
activities  of  these  organizations  in  many  instances  originally 
reached  out  beyond  the  borders  of  their  own  States,  but  as 
time  went  on  they  had  confined  their  efforts  practically  to  work 
within  State  borders.  In  all  the  States  they  filled  a  large  place, 
and  their  aggregate  work  was  of  considerable  moment  and  of 
great  value  in  the  organization  of  churches,  caring  for  the  older 
fields,  and  looking  out  for  some  of  the  foreign-speaking  peoples 
as  they  came  within  the  State  borders.  So  far  as  the  denomina- 
tion in  general  is  concerned,  these  State  organizations  were  not 
thought  of  in  the  aggregate,  or  as  in  any  sense  a  collective  body. 
The  thought  of  each  was  for  its  own  State  and  concern  for  it 
was  only  in  the  State  itself. 

When  the  organization  of  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention 
was  made  permanent  in  1908,  the  constitution  then  adopted  re- 
tained the  clause  in  the  provisional  constitution.  In  the  by-laws 
there  was  a  statement  that  the  reports  of  the  general  denomina- 
tional organization  should  be  referred  to  a  committee  which  was 
to  be  composed  of  one  delegate  from  each  State  to  be  nominated 
by  the  delegates  of  the  respective  States.  This  was  a  recognition 


82          A    MANUAL   OF   THE    NORTHERN    BAPTIST   CONVENTION 

of  the  States,  though  of  course  not  of  the  State  Conventions. 
The  question  of  the  new  organization  had  been  acted  upon  by 
every  State  in  the  territory,  and  the  Executive  Committee  reported 
that  the  Convention  met  with  the  unanimous  indorsement  of  all 
the  State  organizations  of  our  constituency. 

At  the  request  of  State  secretaries  who  were  present  in  Okla- 
homa, a  committee  of  seven  was  appointed  on  the  relations  of 
State  missionary  organizations  to  the  Northern  Baptist  Conven- 
tion. This  committee  was  to  report  the  following  year. 

The  Convention  recognized  the  State  Conventions  by  a  reso- 
lution which  was  to  be  sent  to  all  of  the  State  Convention  secre- 
taries, asking  them  to  cooperate  in  the  movement  to  secure  a 
million  and  a  half  dollars  for  the  national  Societies,  and  at  the 
same  time  they  were  asked  to  consider  whether  the  State  Con- 
ventions could  come  into  relation  with  the  Convention  as  coop- 
erating organizations. 

In  1909  this  committee  reported,  suggesting  a  by-law  under 
which  State  Conventions  might  become  coordinating  organiza- 
tions upon  application  approved  by  the  Convention.  The  ap- 
portionments were  referred  to  the  various  States,  and  each 
State  Convention  was  requested  to  apportion  the  amount  re- 
quested by  the  Convention.  At  this  meeting  the  Wisconsin  State 
Convention  formally  applied  for  admission. 

It  was  the  general  feeling  that  State  Conventions,  because  of 
their  own  special  and  local  interests,  could  not  become  cooperat- 
ing organizations  in  the  same  manner  as  the  general  Societies. 
The  whole  question  of  relationship  was  referred  to  the  Law 
Committee. 

At  the  Convention  in  1910  the  by-laws  were  changed,  as 
follows : 

''  Any  Baptist  State  Convention  may  appoint  ten  delegates  and 
one  additional  delegate  for  every  ten  district  associations  in- 
cluded in  it  above  the  first  ten."  This  by-law  stands  at  the  present 
time.  A  definition  of  a  State  Convention  was  made  so  as  to 
cover  special  conditions  in  the  District  of  Columbia,  Missouri, 
Delaware,  and  some  other  States  where  the  title  of  the  organ- 
ization did  not  indicate  its  full  character.  The  Law  Committee 
expressed  the  opinion  that  the  relation  of  all  the  States  to  the 
Convention  should  be  as  close  as  possible,  but  they  did  not  make 


AFFILIATING   ORGANIZATIONS  83 

any  report  concerning-  a  by-law,  partly  because  a  committee 
had  been  appointed  fo'r  that  purpose,  but  evidently  the  Law 
Committee  appreciated  the  importance  of  the  State  Conventions, 
and  desired  to  find  some  way  whereby  these  bodies  and  the 
Convention  could  be  closely  related. 

The  report  of  the  committee  appointed  at  Portland  concern- 
ing the  relation  of  State  Conventions  to  the  Northern  Baptist 
Convention  recommended  that  a  State  Convention  should  become 
an  affiliating  organization  when  it  had  (a)  adopted  a  resolution 
approving  and  promoting  the  work  and  aim  of  the  Northern 
Baptist  Convention,  (b)  provided  for  the  consideration  at  its 
annual  meeting  of  the  work  of  the  Convention,  (c)  appointed  an 
apportionment  committee  to  receive  from  the  Convention  the 
apportionment  and  to  apportion  the  full  amount  to  the  churches. 
This  committee  expressed  itself  concerning  the  broadening  type 
of  the  State  Convention  and  its  aim  to  unify  the  superintending 
of  all  missionary  work  in  the  State. 

In  1911  the  Law  Committee  asked  each  State  Convention  to 
adopt  a  statement  of  its  object  and  thus  to  become  an  affiliating 
organization.  There  seems  to  have  been  no  report  of  the  com- 
mittee on  relations,  but  a  resolution  was  adopted  thanking  the 
Convention  for  its  action  concerning  the  State  Conventions,  and 
requesting  the  appointment;  of  a  commission  on  State  Conven- 
tions. This  was  appointed,  and  has  been  in  existence  ever  since, 
though  it  was  not  until  1917  that  it  was  recognized  in  the  by- 
laws. Up  to  that  time  its  work  was  without  charge  to  the  Con- 
vention. 

In  1912  the  applications  of  nineteen  State  organizations,  namely, 
Iowa,  Minnesota,  New  Jersey,  East  Washington,  Wisconsin, 
Northern  California,  Southern  California,  Connecticut,  Nebraska, 
Nevada,  Rhode  Island,  West  Virginia,  Vermont,  New  York, 
Pennsylvania,  South  Dakota,  Illinois,  Arizona,  and  New  Hamp- 
shire were  approved,  and  they  became  affiliating  organizations. 
Some  States  had  not  taken  the  exact  steps,  but  had  intended  to  do 
so,  and  a  resolution  was  passed  requesting  them  simply  to  file 
an  application.  The  report  of  the  Committee  on  State  Conven- 
tions was  elaborate,  dealing  with  the  State  Conventions  them- 
selves and  with  their  relation  and  attitude  to  the  Northern  Baptist 
Convention.  Recommendations  were  made :  ( I )  That  each  State 


84       - 

Convention  should  seek  to  hold  in  the  State  the  responsibility 
for  denominational  affairs  held  by  the  Northern  Baptist  Conven- 
tion for  the  general  constituency;  (2)  that  State  Conventions 
should  cultivate  the  closest  possible  relation  with  the  Northern 
Baptist  Convention;  (3)  that  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention 
should  give  full  recognition  to  State  organizations  as  great  lines 
of  missionary  endeavor,  and  that  the  Executive  Committee  should 
provide  time  for  presentation  of  the  united  State  Conventions' 
work,  for  addresses  and  discussions  at  the  annual  meeting. 
Unaffiliated  State  organizations  were  urged  to  formally  unite; 
these  organizations  were  requested  to  give  time  for  the  pres- 
entation of  the  work  and  needs  of  the  Northern  Baptist  Con- 
vention and  the  general  missionary  Societies,  and  it  was  sug- 
gested that  in  each  State  there  be  appointed  a  committee  which 
should  be  the  medium  of  communication  between  the  State 
organization  and  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention.  It  is  easy 
to  see  from  this  review  that  State  Conventions  are  being  more 
and  more  recognized  by  the  denomination  at  large  and  are  com- 
ing to  hold  a  much  larger  place.  Now  the  State  Convention's 
place  is  fully  and  generally  recognized. 

In  1913  the  States  were  again  recognized  when  a  provision 
was  made  for  the  voting  by  States  on  any  question  when  such 
voting  was  called  for  by  one-fifth  of  the  delegates  present,  each 
State  being  given  one  vote  and  one  for  each  ten  thousand 
members. 

The  Committee  on  State  Conventions,  beginning  with  that 
year,  prepared  tables  of  denominational  statistics,  directed  par- 
ticular attention  to  differences  in  these  tables,  and  urged  the 
strongest  need  of  cooperation.  There  was  a  very  general  ten- 
dency to  make  the  State  Conventions  wider  in  their  scope  and 
actual  State  centers. 

At  this  time  Colorado,  Idaho,  Kansas,  Maine,  Massachusetts, 
Michigan,  Montana,  North  Dakota,  Oregon,  Utah,  West  Wash- 
ington, and  Wyoming  were  reported  as  having  taken  the  neces- 
sary action,  and  were  received  as  affiliating  organizations.  Dela- 
ware and  Indiana  were  reported  as  soon  to  take  such  action,  while 
the  District  of  Columbia;  Oklahoma,  and  Missouri,  because  of 
their  dual  relations,  North  and  South,  felt  that  they  could  not 
become  affiliating  organizations. 


AFFILIATING   ORGANIZATIONS  85 

When  the  Convention  met  in  1914,  Delaware  and  Indiana  be- 
came affiliating  organizations.  This  completed  the  list,  so  that 
now  all  State  organizations  except  the  District  of  Columbia  and 
Missouri  are  regular  affiliating  organizations,  and  these  are  in 
thorough  sympathy  with  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention's  aims 
though,  because  of  their  relations  to  the  Southern  Baptist  Con- 
vention, they  have  not  thought  it  feasible  to  formally  unite.  Two 
organizations,  namely,  Oklahoma  and  New  Mexico,  have  with- 
drawn from  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention. 

The  meeting  in  1915  showed  further  progress.  The  Appor- 
tionment Committee  wrote  most  suggestively  as  follows :  "  Our 
State  Conventions  have  been  finding  themselves  during  the  period 
of  development  of  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention.  They  have 
exploited  new  resources  within  their  territory,  they  have  widened 
their  interests  to  include  not  merely  State  missions  in  the  old 
sense,  but  immigration  and  city  mission  problems  within  their 
borders,  and  even  the  work  of  American  and  foreign  missions  as 
well.  Their  affiliation  with  the  Nor  them' Baptist  Convention  and 
with  its  cooperating  Societies  has  been  a  great  source  of  strength 
to  the  denomination." 

In  the  report  of  the  committee  it  emphasized  that  the  relation 
between  the  State  organizations  and  the  Northern  Baptist  Con- 
vention was  not  simply  financial  along  the  line  of  trying  to  secure 
the  apportionment,  but  that  the  "  principle  of  cooperation  "  should 
ever  be  kept  prominently  in  mind,  and  that  the  mutual  relation 
of  dependence  between  national  and  State  organizations  should 
be  in  the  foreground.  It  was  suggested  that  it  might  be  a 
good  plan  to  have  in  each  State  a  committee  of  reference  and  con- 
sultation which  should  be  appointed  by  and  represent  the  State 
Conventions,  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention,  and  the  national 
Societies,  and  that  in  any  reorganization  of  State  Conventions 
the  twofold  relation  which  is  held  to  the  State  and  to  the  national 
work  ought  to  be  carefully  considered. 

In  1916  the  president  devoted  no  small  part  of  his  address  to 
the  State  Conventions,  and  clearly  indicated  their  large  impor- 
tance and  the  necessity  to  consider  carefully  their  development  in 
the  coming  years.  He  said :  "  Unless  my  vision  is  hopelessly  dis- 
torted, the  development  of  our  denomination  for  the  next  decade 
will  be  in  the  field  of  the  State  Convention.  .  .  I  doubt  if  any 


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problem  we  have  faced  .  .  .  has  had  such  far-reaching  results  and 
influences  as  this  emergence  of  the  State  Convention  into  impor- 
tance coordinate  with  that  of  the  Societies." 

The  committee  called  attention  to  several  matters  of  detailed 
organization,  and  was  glad  to  note^the  marked  and  growing 
sense  of  responsibility  in  the  larger  State  Conventions  for  the 
provision  for  the  work  of  all  the  national  Societies. 

In  1917,  the  committee  became  a  standing  committee  of  the 
Northern  Baptist  Convention,  its  duty  being  "  to  review  the  work 
of  the  State  Conventions  that  are  affiliating  organizations  and 
to  consider  all  questions  concerning  such  Conventions  and  their 
relation  to  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention."  This  is  the  last 
step  taken  in  connecting  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention  and 
the  State  Conventions.  The  recommendation  of  the  committee 
for  the  appointment  of  a  statistical  secretary  was  acted  upon  and 
such  officer  was  appointed. 

The  matter  of  imperfect  statistics  was  again  called  to  the  Con- 
vention's attention.  Thus  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention, 
through  its  committee,  has  been  of  large  help,  and  in  many 
ways  has  brought  about  a  larger  and  better  recognition  of  the 
State  Conventions.  On  the  other  hand,  the  State  Conventions, 
for  the  most  part,  have  loyally  cooperated  with  and  supported 
the  Northern  Baptist  Convention.  While  occasionally  there  may 
have  been  hesitation  about  particular  methods,  nevertheless  on 
the  whole  large  progress  has  been  made,  and  the  State  Conven- 
tions recognize  clearly  the  help  that  they  have  obtained.  Prac- 
tically all  the  State  secretaries  recognize  the  completed  unity, 
the  better  sense  of  solidarity,  and  the  wider  outlook.  The  North- 
ern Baptist  Convention  has  helped  the  general  spirit  of  the  de- 
nomination, and  has  taught  the  State  Conventions  to  have  a 
larger  respect  for  themselves.  The  work  has  been  dignified  and 
strengthened,  and  while  much  of  this  has  been  done  in  an  un- 
satisfying fashion,  yet  nevertheless  it  really  has  been  done. 

There  were  nine  State  organizations  that  were  not  incor- 
porated when  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention  was  formed. 
Eight  of  these  have  since  been  incorporated.  Eleven  Conventions 
have  changed  their  form  of  organization,  not  simply  by  adopting 
an  object  as  requested  by  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention,  but  in 
other  and  more  formal  ways.  They  have  seen  marked  advance 


AFFILIATING   ORGANIZATIONS  j 

in  their  work,  and  are  directing  work  in  many  small  cities  and 
directly  cooperating  in  the  larger  ones.  Evangelism  has  been 
given  a  larger  prominence  and  greater  emphasis  than  heretofore. 
Along  educational  lines  State  Conventions  have  taken  the  direc- 
tion of  this  work,  and  in  some  States  have  developed  plans  for 
work  at  the  State  universities  in  connection  with  the  Board  of 
Education  of  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention.  So  too,  in  the 
direction  of  Sunday  Schools  and  young  people's  work.  More 
and  more  this  is  finding  its  center  of  direction  in  the  State  Con- 
ventions. The  uniting  of  Free  Baptist  churches  in  all  of  the 
States  has  been  promoted  by  the  State  Conventions,  and  their 
attitude  and  action  has  tremendously  increased  the  denomina- 
tional life  and  energy. 

In  other  words,  the  State  Convention  is  coming  to  the  front, 
and  in  general  it  may  be  said  is  largely  sustaining  in  each  State 
the  same  relations  that  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention  sustains 
to  its  constituency,  and  is  holding  a  much  more  important  and 
larger  position  than  ever  before. 


VIII 
THE  CONVENTION  COMMITTEES 

By  Prof,  ha  M.  Price 


THE  CONVENTION  COMMITTEES 


THIS  present  triumph  of  denominational  consciousness,  after 
ten  years  of  effort,  has  been  achieved  through  the  patient 
Christian  strivings  of  hundreds  of  persons  engaged  on  prob- 
lems that  have  yielded  to  solution  only  in  committees. 

Simultaneously  with  the  laborious  task  of  unifying  the  bodies 
already  existing,  there  have  arisen  many  new  problems  of  the 
local  church,  of  the  State  organizations,  of  relations  to  other 
Christian  bodies,  and  of  the  mission  fields.  Indeed,  the  larger 
vision  of  the  church's  function,  social,  educational,  missionary, 
and  national,  has  produced  other  problems  that  demanded  atten- 
tion. These  have  received  from  committees  the  necessary  patient 
consideration  preparatory  to  their  presentation  to  the  Convention. 
The  wisest  machinery  for  reaching  conclusions  is  the  committee. 
In  the  Convention  the  terms  "  committee  "  and  "  commission  " 
have  been  used  rather  loosely,  and  both  have  been  applied  to  the 
same  body  at  different  times.  But  the  by-laws  adopted  in  1917 
fixed  the  name  "  committee  "  for  all  the  groups  for  which  pro- 
vision therein  has  been  made. 


For  the  convenience  of  presentation  thirty-seven  committees 
are  here  grouped  into  four  divisions,  as  follows:  (The  first  date 
indicates  the  year  of  appointment.  If  only  a  dash  follows,  the 
committee  is  still  active.) 

i.  Those  whose  permanence  is  assured  by  a  by-law,  and  whose 
membership  is  divided  into  three  classes,  one-third  serving  one 
year,  one-third  two  years,  and  one-third  three  years.  This 
tenure  provides  for  a  reasonably  continuous  policy,  by  which 
definite  plans  can  be  made  and  realized:  (i)  Executive  (1907-) ; 
(2)  Finance  (1908-);  (3)  Apportionment  (1909-);  (4)  Law 
(1909-);  (5)  City  Missions  (1909-);  (6)  Baptist  Brotherhood 
(1908-);  (7)  State  Conventions  (1909-);  (8)  Sodial  Service 
(1908-);  (9)  Religious  Education  (1909-);  (10)  Young  Peo- 


92          A    MANUAL  OF   THE    NORTHERN    BAPTIST   CONVENTION 

pie's  Work   (1910-);   (")   Evangelism   (1913-);   O2)   Baptist 
Bodies  Using  Foreign  Languages  (1911-). 

2.  Those  appointed  annually  for  specific  work  either  in  the 
Convention  session  or  in  the  interim  between  Conventions.    These 
are  also  authorized  by  a  by-law:  (i)  Reports  (1910-)  ;  (2)  En- 
rolment (1907-);  (3)  Order  of  Business  (1908-);  (4)  Nomina- 
tions of  Officers  (1907-) ;  (5)  Place  of  Next  Meeting  (1908-)  ; 

(6)  Resolutions  (1908-). 

3.  Those  without  standing  in  the  by-laws,  but  whose  useful- 
ness has  extended  through  several  years.     Some  accomplished 
their  purpose  and  ceased  to  be;  others  did  not  accomplish  what 
was   anticipated   and   therefore   ceased   to   be;   yet   others   are 
continuously  active  and  deserve  recognition:  (i)  General  Com- 
mittee on  Christian  Stewardship   (1909-1910);   (2)   Denomina- 
tional Journals  (1909-1910) ;  (3)  Delegates  to  the  Federal  Coun- 
cil of  the  Churches  of  Christ  in  America  (1909-)  ;  (4)  Baptist 
Forward    Movement   for    Missionary    Education    (1909-1911); 
(5)  Persian  Missions  (1910-1912)  ;  (6)  Transportation  (1910-)  ; 

(7)  Conference  on  Faith  and  Order  (1912-);  (8)   Conference 
with  a  Committee  of  the  Southern  Baptist  Convention   (1912- 
1916);  (9)  Denominational  Day  (1912-);  (10)  Five  Year  Pro- 
gram (1916-). 

4.  Those  that  have  had  only  a  brief  existence,  appointed  either 
to  meet  an  emergency,  or  to  test  an  alleged  need:  (i)  Plan  of 
Organization    (1907-1908);   (2)    Credentials    (1907-1910);    (3) 
Religious  Services    (1908  only);    (4)    General   Missionaries  in 
Foreign  Lands   (1909  only);   (5)   Coordination  of  Educational 
Agencies  in  the  Local  Church  (1910  only  report,  1911  no  re- 
port);  (6)   Fiscal  Year  (1911  only);   (7)   To  Cooperate  with 
the  American  Bible   Society   in  Arranging  for  its   Centennial 
(1915-1916);  (8)  International  Relations  (1917-);  (9)  Refer- 
ence (1917-);  (10)  Roger  Williams  Memorial  (1917-). 

ii 

The  functions  of  these  committees  thus  classified  and  some  of 
their  achievements  are: 

i.  (i)  The  Executive  Committee  has  charge  of  Convention 
affairs  in  the  interim  between  the  annual  meetings.  No  appeals 
for  money  can  be  made  and  no  collections  can  be  taken  at  the 


THE   CONVENTION    COMMITTEES  93 

meetings  of  the  Convention  which  have  not  been  approved  by 
this  committee.  It  has  thirty  members,  half  of  them  laymen, 
and  carries  the  burdens  of  the  Convention.  The  progress  achieved 
in  unifying  the  complex  interests  of  the  denomination  during 
the  past  ten  years  is  largely  due  to  the  men  who  have  formulated 
the  policy  and  guided  the  work  of  this  committee.  Any  reader 
of  the  minutes  of  the  last  decade  can  see  in  its  work  why  the 
Convention  has  already  taken  its  place  by  the  side  of  the  execu- 
tive bodies  that  represent  other  religious  denominations. 

(2)  The  Finance  Committee  of  nine  men  prepares  and  pre- 
sents to  the  Convention  at  each  annual  meeting  a  budget  based 
on  the  budgets  submitted  by  the  Executive  Committee  and  by 
the  cooperating  organizations.     In  case  of  an  emergency  arising 
between  the  annual  meetings  of  the  Convention,  the  committee, 
by  the  majority  vote  of  all  its  members,  may  approve  the  in- 
curring of  indebtedness  by  a  cooperating  organization.     This 
committee  is  one  of  the  necessities  of  the  Convention.     Its  ef- 
ficiency is  shown  by  annual  reports  that  display  the  business 
judgment  and  tact  that  have  enabled  the  Convention  to  broaden 
its  plans  with  each  passing  year. 

(3)  The  Apportionment  Committee  is   composed  of  twelve 
persons,  widely  distributed  in  their  interests.     It  divides  among 
the  States  represented  in  the  Convention  the  amounts  to  be 
raised  as  specified  in  the  budget  approved  by  the  Convention, 
and  communicates   to   the  Apportionment   Committee   of   each 
State  the  amount  apportioned  to  it.    It  appoints  an  Apportion- 
ment  Committee   for  any  State   where  no   such  committee  is 
appointed.     It  employs  agents  and  uses  methods  to  carry  the 
apportionment  into  effect.     It  divides  ratably  among  the  bene- 
ficiaries of  the  budget  the  expense  incurred  in  the  performance 
of  its  duties.    It  has  had  as  rough  sailing  as  any  committee-craft 
on  the  Convention  sea.    A  campaign  of  education  in  the  raising 
of  money  has  had  to  be  one  of  the  means  employed  to  win  its 
way.     Churches  and  individuals,  associations  and  State  Conven- 
tions have  at  first  stood  aghast  at  the  proposals  of  this  committee. 
But  persistent  and  consistent  promotion  of  plans,  though  modified 
to  meet  local  conditions,  has  steadily  made  headway. 

(4)  The  Law  Committee  consists  of  six  persons.     It  is  the 
duty  of  this  committee  to  consider  and  report  on  all  matters 


94          A    MANUAL   OF   THE   NORTHERN    BAPTIST   CONVENTION 

referred  to  it  by  the  Convention  or  the  Executive  Committee. 
Early  in  the  history  of  the  Convention  legal  counsel  was  required. 
The  framing  of  the  constitution  and  by-laws  was  clarified  by 
consultation  with  such  talent.  In  securing  the  Act  of  Incorpora- 
tion in  the  State  of  New  York  in  1910  and  in  constructing  by-laws 
under  that  act,  the  Law  Committee  was  the  prime  factor.  The 
status  of  the  Convention  as  a  legal  entity  is  due  to  this  com- 
mittee's influence  and  labors.  Other  questions  of  a  legal  char- 
acter have  arisen,  and  are  continually  emerging  that  require  its 
knowledge  and  wisdom.  Many  problems  have  been  happily 
disposed  of  by  its  efficient  work,  hitherto  without  expense  to  the 
Convention. 

(5)  The  City  Missions  Committee  was  named  "  Committee  on 
City  Mission   Problems "  until  the  adoption  of  the  by-law  in 
1917.    It  is  composed  of  nine  persons,  charged  with  the  duty  of 
studying  questions  relating  to  cooperation  between  city  mission 
organizations  and  State  Conventions,  and  the  cooperating  organ- 
izations of  the  Convention;  and  also  all  other  general  questions 
related  to  city  mission  work  throughout  the  country.     The  first 
report  in  1909  dealt  with  city  mission  and  church  extension  so- 
cieties and  their  problems.     Its  second  report  in  1910  gave  a 
general  trumpet-call  to  the  entire  denomination  to  attack  the 
city  problem.     In   1911   the   report  presented   statistics  on  the 
growth  of  cities,  with  special  emphasis  on  religious  statistics, 
and  made  a  stirring  appeal  to  Baptists  to  assume  their  measure 
of  responsibility  for  the  redemption  of  American  cities.     The 
1912  report  presented  notable  charts  of  Baptist  growth  in  large 
cities  (1900-1910),  and  also  others  representing  the  segregation 
of  foreign-born  by  States  and  cities.     The  report  of  1915  gave 
city  mission  statistics,  and  a  directory  of  city  mission  societies. 
The  next  year  there  were  presented  valuable  statistics  of  the  same 
kind,  and  also  ten  cuts  of  churches  and  groups  of  foreigners 
in   city   mission   territory   in   several   cities.      The    1917   report 
emphasized  the   strategical   importance  of  the  work  and  con- 
cluded with  valuable  statistics. 

(6)  The  Baptist  Brotherhood  Committee  was  the  fruition  of 
several  earlier  names.     The  Committee  on  Baptist  Brotherhood 
and  Laymen's  Movement  was  appointed  in  1908.    The  next  year 
there  was  recorded  a  "  Men's  Brotherhood  Council,"  with  an- 


THE   CONVENTION    COMMITTEES  95 

other  cognate  body  entitled  "  Brotherhood  Auxiliary  Commit- 
tee." But  in  1910  there  was  a  report  from  the  "  Brotherhood 
Council "  and  also  a  committee  on  nomination  of  officers  for 
the  "  Baptist  Brotherhood."  Henceforth  the  name  appears  as 
"  Brotherhood  Council,"  until  for  1918  the  body  is  mentioned  as 
"  Baptist  Brotherhood,"  as  in  the  by-laws.  This  committee  is 
to  further  the  organization  of  men  in  Baptist  churches  for  study, 
fellowship,  and  service,  and  to  consider  all  questions  related 
thereto.  It  has  had  its  ups  and  downs.  The  numerous  men's  or- 
ganizations, denominational  and  interdenominational,  have  been 
struggling  to  consolidate  their  gains  by  engaging  upon  some 
specific  task.  In  1913  the  report  rejoiced  over  a  cooperative 
movement  between  the  American  Baptist  Publication  Society 
and  the  Social  Service  Commission,  whereby  that  Society  created 
a  department  of  Social  Service  and  Brotherhood.  This  gave  a 
new  lease  of  life  to  the  Brotherhood,  and  supplied  it  with  in- 
spiring courses  of  study  and  useful  lines  of  service.  For  1914 
and  1915  the  reports  are  found  under  the  American  Baptist 
Publication  Society's  description  of  the  work  of  those  years  in 
the  newly  created  department.  For  1916  and  1917  the  Executive 
Secretary  of  the  department  of  Social  Service  and  Brotherhood 
presented  two  elaborate  reports  amply  supplied  with  suggestions 
and  proposed  courses  of  study  and  service. 

(7)  The  State  Conventions  Committee  had  its  root  in  1909  in 
the  committee  on  "  Relations  of  State  Missionary  Organizations 
to  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention."  In  1912  the  committee  was 
charged  with  standardizing  the  relations  between  State  Con- 
ventions and  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention.  In  1913  it  was 
simplified  to  "  State  Conventions."  It  is  the  duty  of  this  com- 
mittee to  review  the  work  of  the  State  Conventions  that  are 
affiliating  organizations  and  to  consider  all  questions  concerning 
such  Conventions  and  their  relation  to  the  Northern  Baptist 
Convention.  The  wholly  independent  character  of  the  State  or- 
ganizations has  called  for  diplomacy,  patience,  executive  ability, 
and  persistence  to  coordinate  them  with  the  purposes  of  the 
Northern  Baptist  Convention.  The  leaders  in  the  several  States, 
and  the  desire  for  general  harmony  and  unity  in  our  denomina- 
tional work,  have  contributed  largely  to  the  steady  progress 
made  toward  the  realization  of  that  ideal. 


96         A    MANUAL  OF  THE   NORTHERN   BAPTIST   CONVENTION 

(8)  The  Social  Service   Committee  was  appointed  in   1908, 
and  made  its  first  report  in  1909.    This  committee  is  to  study 
social  conditions  and  needs,  to  ascertain  the  activities  of  Bap- 
tist churches  in  the  field  of  social  service,  to  organize  and  enlist 
Baptists  in  practical  and  definite  lines  of  community  service  in 
city  and  country,  to  cooperate  with  similar  agencies  of  other 
religious  bodies,  and  from  time  to  time  to  report  its  findings  and 
recommendations  through  the  religious  press.    It  has  made  full 
annual  reports  of  specific  work  done.    Elaborate  plans  of  service 
have  been   devised  and  published.     These  are   found  both  in 
the  annual  reports,  and  in  separate  booklets  issued  by  the  Pub- 
lication Society.     Probably  no  other  committee  has  been  more 
active  nor  issued  a  larger  amount  of  literature  bearing  imme- 
diately on  the  field  it  was  appointed  to  cultivate. 

(9)  Religious  Education.    The  "  Social  Service  Commission  " 
in  its  report  for  1909  recommended  that  a  commission  on  re- 
ligious and  moral  education  be  created  by  the  Convention,  charged 
with   the   special   duty  of  considering  this   whole   question  of 
religious  and  moral  education.    It  was  appointed,  and  presented 
its  first  report  in  1910.    A  committee  on  "  Coordination  of  Edu- 
cational  Agencies   in  the   Local   Church "   was  also   appointed 
in   1909.     Both  reported  in   1910.     Conscious  that  their  work 
overlapped,  they  made  only  general  reports  touching  religious 
education  in  colleges  and  churches.    The  second  committee  was 
impressed  with  the  desirability  of  a  permanent  commission  of 
the  Convention  on   Religious   Education.     This   was  the   only 
report  made  by  this  committee.    In  1912  it  passed  out  of  exis- 
tence, and  its  work  was  taken  over  by  the  Commission  on  Re- 
ligious and  Moral  Education.     Since  1916  this  body  has  been 
designated  "  Committee  on  Religious  Education."     Its  duty  is 
to  study  the  educational  needs  of  the  local  church,  and  in  co- 
operation with  the  American  Baptist  Publication  Society  to  pre- 
pare educational  courses  for  the  promotion  of  the  intelligent 
growth  of  the  church,  and  for  its  symmetrical  development  in 
its  varied  relations  to  the  community,  to  the  outspread  of  Chris- 
tianity, and  to  the  world  at  large.    This  committee  has  endeavored 
to  fulfil  its  duty  and  since  its  reorganization  in  1911  has  issued 
six  annual  reports,  five  folders,  and  ten  bulletins  on  different 
phases  of  education  and  work  immediately  concerning  the  local 


THE   CONVENTION    COMMITTEES  97 

church  and  the  community.  The  material  issued  in  1917  oc- 
cupies fifty-three  pages  of  the  Convention  Annual.  The  material 
already  issued,  if  put  to  use  by  the  churches,  is  sufficient  to 
inaugurate  a  new  era  in  religious  education  in  our  Baptist  ranks. 
Some  of  these  plans  have  already  been  adopted  by  churches  and 
committees  of  other  denominations. 

(10)  Young  Peoples  Work  was  first  dignified  by  the  appoint- 
ment of  a  separate  committee  in  1910,  which  made  its  first  report 
in  1911.    The  duty  of  this  committee  is,  in  cooperation  with  the 
American   Baptist   Publication   Society,   to   superintend  the  or- 
ganization of  young  people's  work,  and  to  foster  inspirational 
and  educational  activities  in  connection  therewith.     As  in  the 
case  of  social  service,  the  work  of  this  committee  is  largely  car- 
ried  out   by   the   Young   People's    Secretary   of   the  American 
Baptist  Publication  Society.     The  most  notable  achievement  of 
this  committee  during  its  existence  has  been  the  consummation 
of  friendly  and  even  cordial  relations  between  all  Baptist  young 
people. 

(11)  The  Evangelism  Committee  was   recommended  by  the 
American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society  in  1913.    Its  purpose  is 
to  study  the  subjects  of  evangelism  with  a  view  to  discover  and 
suggest  the  most  effective  means  for  promoting  it,  and  in  coop- 
eration with  the  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society  to  dis- 
seminate evangelistic  literature,  and  in  all  other  practical  ways 
to  encourage  and  promote  personal  evangelism,  organized  evan- 
gelism in  the  local  church,  and  cooperative  evangelism  among 
the  churches.     Each  successive  report  since  1915  teems  with  en- 
couraging facts  regarding  the  growth  of  the  evangelistic  spirit 
in  the  churches,  associations,  and  States.    The  enthusiatic  report 
of  1917  promises  larger  results  than  ever  before  for  the  con- 
summation of  the  Five  Year  Program. 

(12)  Coordination   of   Baptist   Bodies    Using  Foreign   Lan- 
guages is  the  somewhat  cumbersome  title  used  of  the  committee 
to  study  and  report  on  the  best  methods  for  coordinating  Baptist 
Bodies  Using  Foreign  Languages  with  one  another,  and  also  with 
other  Baptist  bodies,  and  also  to  report  such  other  facts  and  such 
statistics  related  to  the  work  of  the  committee  as  to  it  may  seem 
proper.     The   committee   owes    its   origin   to   two   independent 
motions  made  in  1911.    It  was  first  termed  "  Commission  on  the 


98         A    MANUAL   OF   THE   NORTHERN    BAPTIST   CONVENTION 

Coordination  of  American  Baptist  Bodies  Using  Various  Lan- 
guages," and  presented  a  brief  report  in  1912.  In  1913  little  was 
reported  except  a  statistical  chart  of  the  American  Baptist  Home 
Mission  Society  on  Northern  Baptist  work  among  foreigners  in 
the  United  States.  "  Foreign-speaking  Bodies  "  is  the  name  used 
in  1914,  when  the  commission  presented  a  statistical  summary  of 
the  history  of  such  foreign-speaking  Baptists  in  the  United 
States.  Still  further  progress  was  made  in  the  1915  report, 
where  an  earnest  appeal  was  made  to  the  church  and  to  the 
Convention  to  come  to  the  aid  of  these  peoples.  The  last  two 
reports  (1916  and  1917)  are  by  far  the  most  informing  and  most 
appealing  that  this  committee  has  made,  and  show  how  urgent 
and  pressing  is  the  task  that  lies  before  the  Baptists  of  North 
America. 

2.  The  second  class  of  committees  appointed  annually  requires 
no  especial  notice,  although  in  their  spheres  they  perform  a  neces- 
sary and  useful  service. 

3.  Lack  of  space  forbids  separate  mention  of  the  committees 
which  constitute  class  three,  although  many  of  them  have  served 
and  are  serving  useful  purposes. 

4.  Class  four  contains  the  germs  probably  of  several  com- 
mittees whose  usefulness  will  be  distinguished  in  future  years. 

These  necessary  and  important  services  rendered  by  com- 
mittees are  also  to  be  looked  upon  as  pioneers  in  the  discovery 
of  many  of  the  most  efficient  and  far-seeing  men  and  women 
of  our  denomination  to  whom  the  Convention  in  the  future  can 
entrust  some  of  its  most  troublesome  and  important  problems. 


IX 
A  DIGEST  OF  CONVENTION  ANNUALS 

By  Prof.  Henry  K.  Rome 


A  DIGEST  OF  CONVENTION  ANNUALS 


THE  Annuals  of  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention  constitute 
a  cyclopedia  of  recent  Baptist  progress.  While  they  are  the 
mine  from  which  the  Baptist  historian  will  extract  his  mate- 
rials, it  can  hardly  be  expected  that  the  busy  man  of  affairs  will 
read  them  carefully.  A  predigested,  condensed  summary  may 
increase  the  consumption  of  facts.  This  article  does  not  make 
detailed  references  nor  does  it  preserve  chronological  order, 
but  aims  to  bring  out  the  most  important  results  of  the  decade. 

The  purpose  of  forming  the  Convention  was  to  unite  more 
closely  the  churches  scattered  over  the  northern  part  of  the 
country;  to  increase  their  understanding  of  the  work  of  the 
kingdom  and  their  interest  in  it ;  to  stimulate  them  to  larger  and 
more  efficient  activity;  and  to  provide  a  platform  for  the  dis- 
cussion of  denominational  matters,  and  of  the  moral  and  social 
issues  that  increasingly  demand  the  attention  of  Christian  people. 
There  was  no  thought  of  establishing  authority  over  churches 
or  local  associations. 

No  attempt  was  made  to  absorb  the  general  Societies,  nor  to 
merge  them.  It  was  expected  that  they  would  willingly  ally 
themselves  with  the  new  organization.  This  came  about  within 
a  few  years,  when  the  three  large  Societies,  followed  by  the 
women's  Societies,  became  officially  cooperating  organizations. 
The  various  State  Conventions  also  became  affiliating  organiza- 
tions. These  friendly  organizations  preserve  their  self-govern- 
ment. In  his  annual  report  to  the  Convention  in  1915  President 
Clinch  declared,  "  The  simple  scheme  for  the  organization  of  the 
Convention  preserves  the  independence  of  the  church,  of  the 
cooperating  organizations,  and  of  the  State  Conventions,  and 
in  no  wise  impairs  the  efficiency  of  any  of  them." 

The  functions  of  the  Convention  are  to  stimulate,  to  educate, 
and  to  plan  for  efficiency  in  the  departments  of  service  that  be- 
long to  an  efficient  church  and  denomination.  The  Convention 
created  the  necessary  machinery  to  perform  those  functions. 

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IO2       A    MANUAL   OF   THE    NORTHERN    BAPTIST   CONVENTION 

Committees,  commissions,  and  boards  came  into  existence  to 
guide  the  denomination  through  their  findings.  During  the  first 
five  years  the  work  was  mainly  that  of  preliminary  surveys  and 
pioneer  construction,  but  at  the  end  of  that  time  the  achieve- 
ments of  the  Convention  could  be  summed  up  as  follows : 

1.  The  Convention  had  permanently  organized  itself,  secured 
incorporation,  and  found  its  field  of  work. 

2.  The  denominational  Societies  had  become  closely  linked  with 
the  Convention,  and  the  State  Conventions  had  become  affiliated 
with  it. 

3.  Difficulties  had  been  adjusted  amicably  with  the  Southern 
Baptists,  relations  established  with  the  Free  Baptists,  and  greet- 
ings exchanged  with  European  Baptists. 

4.  Delegates  had  been  appointed  to  the  Federal  Council  of 
the  Churches  of  Christ  in  America,  formed  to  promote  national 
interdenominational  unity;  and  a  committee  was  appointed  to 
consider  matters  of  world  faith  and  order  in  consultation  with 
representatives  of  other  Christian  bodies. 

5.  An  effective  budget  and  apportionment  system  had  been 
organized  and  had  increased  the  gifts  from  the  churches. 

6.  Two  boards  of  vital  importance  were  created  to  care  for  the 
young  people  and  for  aged  ministers. 

7.  Committees  were  pushing  men's  and  young  people's  work, 
religious  education,  and  social  service. 

8.  Executive  and  Finance  committees  were  devising  plans  for 
further  advance,  adjusting  various  interests  of  the  denomination, 
and  finding  ways  and  means  to  finance  all  these  enterprises. 

The  policy  of  annual  meetings  has  given  the  churches  con- 
tinual direction  of  denominational  policies.  The  organization  is 
wholesomely  democratic.  The  personnel  of  its  committees  and 
boards  changes  frequently  enough  to  give  opportunity  for  the 
contributions  of  many  minds,  yet  not  in  such  wholesale  fashion 
as  to  destroy  continuity  of  policy  and  planning. 

The  places  of  meeting  have  purposely  been  remote  from  one 
another.  The  Convention  has  come  into  close  contact  with  all 
its  constituency.  There  is  always  inevitably  the  disadvantage  of 
an  overplus  of  local  delegates,  but  every  section  of  the  country 
has  an  opportunity  to  share  in  Convention  gatherings  at  frequent 
intervals. 


A   DIGEST   OF    CONVENTION    ANNUALS  IO3 

The  achievements  of  the  ten  years,  topically  indicated,  are: 

1.  A  gain  in  denominational  self -appreciation.    Now  the  com- 
mon interests  and  beliefs  of  the  various  communions  get  more 
emphasis  than  the  tenets  that  separate,  but  as  long  as  a  denom- 
ination exists  it  must  maintain  its  own  respect  and  self-con- 
sciousness.    The    Convention   has   encouraged   the   annual   ob- 
servance of  a  Denominational  Day,  and  systematic  education  of 
the  young  people  in  Baptist  principles.    It  has  promoted  denom- 
inational consciousness,  and  a  sense  that  the  denomination  has 
reasons  for  existence. 

2.  A  greater  unity.    The  Convention  has  tended  to  bring  to- 
gether Baptists  of  different  names.    In  its  early  days  it  seemed 
advisable  to  find  a  common  understanding  with  Southern  Baptists 
over  mutual  interests  in  the  Southwest,  and  certain  differences 
were  adjusted  by  a  joint  committee.    The  two  Baptist  branches 
now  send  reciprocal  messages  of  greeting  through  accredited 
delegates  to  the  annual  meetings  of  both  Conventions.    In  1911 
at  Philadelphia  about  one  hundred  representatives  of  European 
Baptists  were  present,  and  there  was  great  enthusiasm  developed 
in  fostering  the  thought  of  the  common  Baptist  interests  of 
both  hemispheres  being  furthered  through  the  Baptist  World 
Alliance. 

Since  that  time  there  has  been  a  closer  drawing  together  of 
minor  Baptist  groups  with  the  main  body.  In  1911  the  Free 
Baptists  entered  into  a  mutual  arrangement  with  the  Baptists, 
by  which  the  smaller  body  transferred  its  denominational  in- 
terests to  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention  and  thus  effected  a 
reunion  after  a  separation  that  had  lasted  a  hundred  and  twenty 
years.  The  next  several  years  saw  a  cordial  approach  of  Amer- 
ican and  foreign-speaking  Baptists  to  each  other.  There  are 
thousands  of  German,  Scandinavian,  and  Italian  Baptists  in  this 
country,  not  to  speak  of  smaller  groups,  that  have  common  beliefs 
and  practices,  but  they  needed  such  a  mediator  as  the  Con- 
vention to  bring  them  together.  In  1912  a  committee  undertook 
to  improve  the  mutual  acquaintance.  It  was  able  to  enumerate 
a  surprising  number  of  foreign-speaking  groups,  and  in  1915 
sent  out  an  urgent  call  to  the  churches  to  push  home  missions 
among  the  New  Americans.  This  friendly  approach  led  also 
to  better  provision  for  the  theological  education  of  ministers  to 


IO4       A    MANUAL  OF   THE    NORTHERN    BAPTIST   CONVENTION 

Baptists  speaking  foreign  languages  and  for  religious  literature 
for  their  use. 

In  1914  the  General  Baptists  of  the  Ohio  Valley  came  into 
closer  relations  with  the  regular  Baptists.  Like  the  Free  Bap- 
tists, they  were  encouraged  to  seek  a  closer  union  than  could 
be  enjoyed  in  separate  organization.  Both  parties  were  friendly, 
and  the  time  seemed  auspicious  for  a  more  complete  union. 

3.  A  spirit  of  comity  toward  other  denominations.    The  Epis- 
copalians  were  urging  better  acquaintance  among  the  various 
denominations,  and  proposed  a  World  Conference  of  Faith  and 
Order.    Baptists  responded  in  a  friendly  way,  and  appeared  will- 
ing to   do   their  part  in  encouraging  the   friendliest  relations. 
The  Convention  also  sends  delegates  to  the  Federal  Council  of 
the  Churches  of  Christ  in  America,  and  Baptists  have  been  among 
the  recognized  leaders  in  that  organization. 

The  Convention  has  promoted  a  better  acquaintance  and  co- 
operation among  State  Conventions.  Their  secretaries  have 
met  at  the  Convention  gatherings,  and  now  hold  annual  confer- 
ences, where  they  discuss  their  common  problems.  Moreover, 
friendly  relations  and  helpful  cooperation  have  been  established 
between  both  the  city  mission  societies,  State  Conventions,  and 
the  national  missionary  Societies.  In  ways  like  these  the  far- 
reaching  influence  of  the  Convention  appears  as  well  as  in  its 
more  direct  activities. 

4.  Efficiency.     It  was  recognized  in  1911  at  Philadelphia  that 
one  of  the  valuable  results  of  the  Convention  was  to  stimulate 
the  local  churches  to  higher  standards  of  efficiency.    The  Execu- 
tive Committee  in  its  report  that  year  went  so  far  as  to  say :  "  If 
our  many-handed  organization  is  to  justify  its  existence  it  must 
do  something  more  than  furnish  a  platform  for  speeches,  how- 
ever eloquent,  something  more  than  assign  budgets.    If  our  great 
organization  can  illumine  the  tasks  of  the  local  churches,  if  it  can 
vitalize  the  relations  between  the  church  and  Jesus  Christ  and 
between  the  church  and  humanity,  it  will  be  not  only  helpful 
but  indispensable."     This  conviction  led  to  the  statement  of  a 
standard  of  efficiency,  and  called  for  its  adoption  by  a  thousand 
churches  within  a  year.     The  standard  adopted  calls  for  con- 
tributions and  service  from  every  church-member,  and  his  pres- 
ence in  the  Sunday  School  as  teacher  or  pupil ;  urges  the  reduc- 


A   DIGEST   OF    CONVENTION   ANNUALS  IO5 

tion  of  non-resident  membership ;  and  proposes  that  every  church 
should  stimulate  missions,  have  a  constructive  social  program, 
and  cooperate  for  fellowship  and  efficiency  with  other  Baptist 
and  non-Baptist  bodies. 

The  call  for  efficiency  went  out  to  the  larger  organizations  as 
well  as  to  the  local  churches.  A  committee  recommended  im- 
proved methods  to  the  foreign  Mission  Society,  and  showed  the 
desirability  of  modifying  the  relations  of  the  Home  Mission 
Society  and  the  Publication  Society.  Efficiency  determined  the 
reshaping  of  educational  programs,  and  the  development  of  the 
structure  and  work  of  State  Conventions  and  local  associations. 

5.  An  expansion  of  interest  and  activity.  The  time-honored 
tasks  of  the  churches  have  been  uppermost  in  the  minds  of  the 
delegates.  Naturally  the  missionary  enterprise  has  received 
chief  attention,  for  that  crystallized  the  Baptists  into  a  denom- 
ination a  century  ago.  The  Finance  and  Apportionment  Com- 
mittees of  the  Convention  aid  in  providing  the  money  for  mis- 
sionary undertakings.  Evangelism  is  another  long-standing 
concern  of  American  Baptists,  and  a  Committee  on  Evangelism 
has  planned  methods  and  campaigns.  But  new  times  bring  new 
duties  and  new  light  for  their  accomplishment.  Three  subjects 
have  received  new  emphasis : 

(a)  The  young  people  of  the  churches.     The  church  of  the 
present  must  build  the  future  church.    A  Committee  on  Young 
People's  Work  and  active  cooperation  with  the  Baptist  Young 
People's  Union  care  for  that  part  of  the  church's  interest  with 
enthusiasm  and  efficiency. 

(b)  The  educational  emphasis  is  one  of  the  most  important 
gains  that  has  come  from  the  Convention.     The  young  people 
must  receive  religious  training  in  the  church  and  the  home.    The 
Committee  on  Religious  Education  has  made  that  subject  its 
particular  field  of  study  and  effort.     The  young  people  must 
receive  a  better  higher  education  in  the  colleges  and  profes- 
sional schools,  and  Baptist  institutions  need  better  endowment 
and   equipment.     This  became   the   sphere   of   the   new  Board 
of  Education.    These  efforts  are  reacting  on  the  local  churches. 
The  new  ideas  of  the  committees  do  not  easily  percolate  through 
the  denominational  system  or  win  prompt  response  in  contri- 
butions of  time  and  money.    There  is  much  waste  in  the  trans- 


IO6       A   MANUAL  OF  THE   NORTHERN    BAPTIST   CONVENTION 

mission  of  brain  product,  but  there  have  been  very  real  gains 
in  ideals  and  achievements. 

(c)  Social  Service.  The  Convention  came  into  existence  at  a 
time  when  the  various  denominations  were  putting  stress  on 
this  form  of  Christian  responsibility,  and  were  organizing  for 
that  purpose.  Among  the  first  committees  of  the  Convention 
was  that  on  Social  Service,  which  has  reported  annually.  A 
secretary  has  been  appointed  to  push  that  work,  and  to  look 
after  the  interests  of  the  Baptist  Brotherhood.  From  the  de- 
partment headquarters  in  Philadelphia  radiate  the  forces  of 
social  uplift  that  operate  through  the  channels  of  State  and 
local  committees. 

6.  Opportunity   to  voice  denominational  opinion.     Religious 
democracy  must  have  a  means  of  expressing  itself.     Formerly 
our  only  general  organizations  were  for  missionary  and  pub- 
lication purposes,  and  there  was  no  opportunity  to  discuss  public 
issues.     Baptists  were  powerless  to  make  the  influence  of  their 
convictions  felt  concerning  such  matters  as  temperance,  crime, 
poverty,  industrial  unrest,  and  immigration  problems.    Now  that 
has  changed.     Every  year  the  Convention  expresses  itself  upon 
matters  of  current  interest,  and  these  utterances  are  heard  with 
respect.     The  denomination  has  not  forgotten  its  responsibility 
in  war  time,  and  has  tried  to  meet  it  more  satisfactorily  by  the 
appointment  of  a  War  Commission.    Consensus  of  spiritual  prin- 
ciples finds  expression  in  an  annual  sermon  preached  before  the 
Convention  by  a  minister  of  recognized  leadership. 

7.  Increased  momentum  to  the  activities  that  are  generally 
recognized  as  legitimate  and  worth  while.    The  most  ambitious 
advance  was  the  adoption  of  the  Five  Year  Program.    In  1910 
a   resolution   was   offered   "  that  the   Executive   Committee   be 
instructed  to  consider  a  special  program  for  advance,  and  to 
recommend  a  definite  amount  of  work  to  be  done  by  Northern 
Baptists  within  a  specified  period  of  years  toward  which  the 
denomination  may  enthusiastically  direct  its  efforts."     The  mis- 
sionary undertakings   of  the   denomination   naturally  came  to 
mind  first  in  this  connection.    The  Convention  has  approved  the 
Laymen's  Missionary  Movement.     It  was  glad  to  enter  upon  a 
United  Missionary  Campaign  in  1913  under  the  joint  direction 
of  the  General  Apportionment  Committee,  the  Laymen's  Move- 


A   DIGEST   OF   CONVENTION   ANNUALS  IO/ 

ment,  and  the  Department  of  Missionary  Education.  In  1915 
this  Campaign  was  merged  in  the  more  ambitious  Five  Year 
Program. 

This  Program,  the  product  of  a  Conference  on  Denominational 
Objectives,  was  adopted  with  enthusiasm.  It  came  as  a  result  of 
a  .conviction  that  "  the  call  of  the  hour  is  for  a  constructive, 
cumulative  program  of  advance  so  large  and  so  compelling  as 
to  arrest  attention,  unify  our  forces  and  activities,  challenge  our 
men  of  large  resources,  and  stir  our  whole  people  with  a  splendid 
enthusiasm  for  the  kingdom  of  God."  It  was  hoped  that  the 
program  would  result  in  making  every  church  an  evangelistic 
and  social  force  in  its  community  as  well  as  to  be  dynamic  in 
world  life.  The  particular  goal  in  view  included  a  million 
baptisms,  five  thousand  missionaries,  two  million  dollars  endow- 
ment for  the  Ministers  and  Missionaries  Benefit  Board,  and  six 
millions  for  denominational  education,  and  as  much  more  for 
missions  and  benevolence.  The  methods  recommended  included 
evangelism,  education,  social  service,  systematic  giving,  and 
prayer. 

Another  Convention  experiment  that  has  proved  successful 
was  first  tried  in  1914,  and  more  fully  in  1917.  This  is  the 
holding  of  sectional  meetings  in  the  interest  of  special  matters 
like  religious  education  and  social  service.  The  first  of  these, 
for  instance,  which  was  on  religious  education,  included  a  general 
mass-meeting,  at  which  two  addresses  were  delivered  before  the 
entire  assembly,  and  then  the  gathering  divided  into  voluntary 
groups  for  the  discussion  of  grade  problems  in  Sunday  School 
work.  These  sectional  meetings  may  develop  into  forums  for 
the  thorough  discussion  of  all  phases  of  religious  work  and  in- 
terest. 

When  the  results  of  the  ten  years  are  brought  together  there 
is  much  reason  for  encouragement.  There  is  a  new  virility  and 
determination  to  achieve.  The  first  years  of  the  Convention 
naturally  were  years  of  experiment.  The  new  instrumentalities 
were  surveying  and  mapping  out  their  work.  The  five  years 
since  1912  have  been  years  of  cultivation.  It  has  been  necessary 
to  enlist  the  churches  in  the  plans  of  the  Convention,  and  to 
educate  the  ministers  and  members  in  the  new  order  of  church 
progress.  It  is  no  easy  task  to  stimulate  more  than  a  million 


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Baptists  to  a  more  rapid  march  to  victory  over  ignorance  and  sin 
and  social  evil.  That  is  what  is  being  done,  however.  The 
regular  drill  is  less  spectacular  than  the  initial  mobilization,  but 
the  people  are  slowly  rounding  into  form. 

Sunday  Schools  and  young  people's  missionary  organizations 
are  being  standardized  and  their  courses  of  study  improved. 
Many  churches  are  appointing  committees  on  religious  education 
and  social  service  to  direct  those  departments  of  activity.  The 
State  Conventions  are  reorganizing  after  the  pattern  of  the 
Northern  Baptist  Convention,  and  centralizing  all  denomina- 
tional interests  within  the  State.  Educational  Day  and  Denom- 
inational Day  are  arousing  the  denominational  conscience  and 
consciousness.  Some  of  the  strongest  men  in  the  country  have 
been  enrolled  among  the  officers  and  workers  of  the  Convention 
and  its  auxiliaries. 

It  is  idle  to  forecast  future  developments.  In  common  with 
all  other  Christian  bodies  Baptists  are  in  the  crucible  of  popular 
judgment  of  matters  religious.  Every  denomination  must  prove 
its  right  to  exist,  and  to  the  confidence  of  the  people.  Baptists 
must  strive  for  greater  unity  in  spirit  and  organization,  for 
greater  comity  between  departments  within  the  denomination, 
and  with  religious  organizations  bearing  other  names,  for  in- 
creased efficiency  and  teachableness,  and  for  larger  undertak- 
ings in  missions  and  social  service.  The  gravest  dangers  are 
disunity  and  stagnation.  The  organism  that  does  not  respond 
to  stimulus  deteriorates  and  dies.  If  Baptists  are  content  with 
an  honorable  past,  satisfied  with  the  same  odd  way  of  precedent 
without  new  vision,  provincial  in  interests,  and  unprogressive 
in  thought,  their  denominational  heritage  of  leadership  in  free- 
dom, democracy,  and  spiritual  earnestness  will  pass  to  others. 
One  of  the  best  antidotes  to  this  slow  poison  is  the  Convention 
Annual.  The  best  thought  of  picked  men  is  reflected  there. 
Always  there  are  new  ideas  set  into  new  plans  to  be  worked 
out  by  churches,  Sunday  Schools,  and  other  organizations  that 
are  forward-looking  in  their  attitude.  The  story  of  the  first 
ten  years  may  well  be  an  inspiration  to  the  churches  of  the 
Northern  Baptist  Convention  to  much  greater  effort  in  days  to 
come. 


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PRESENT  OFFICERS 

President 
GEORGE  W.  COLEMAN Boston,  Mass. 

First  Vice-president 
W.  G.  BRIMSON Chicago,  111. 

Second  Vice-president 
REV.  W.  W.  BUSTARD Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Corresponding  Secretary 
REV.  WILLIAM  C.  BITTING 5109  Waterman  Avenue,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Recording  Secretary 

REV.  MAURICE  A.  LEVY 754  Greene  Avenue,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Statistical  Secretary 
REV.  CHARLES  A.  WALKER West  Chester,  Pa. 

Treasurer 
FRANK  L.  MINER Flynn  Building,  Des  Moines,  Iowa. 


MEMBERS  OF  EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE 

Term  expires  1918 

Prof.  F.  L.  Anderson,  Newton  Cen-  Rev.  O.  J.  Price,  Lansing,  Mich. 

ter,  Mass.  Pres.  D.  B.  Purinton,  Morgantown, 
F.  W.  Ayer,  Camden,  N.  J.  W.  Va. 

0.  P.  Coshow,  Roseburg,  Ore.  Hon.  W.  W.  Stickney,  Ludlow,  Vt. 
R.  B.  Griffith,  Grand  Forks,  N.  Dak.  Ambrose  Swasey,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 
Mrs.  F.  W.  Johnson,  Chicago,  111.  L.  M.  Webb,  Portland,  Me. 

Term  expires  1919 

S.  B.  Bechtel,  Fort  Wayne,  Ind.  Rev.     E.     A.     Hanley,     Rochester, 

1.  W.  Carpenter,  Omaha,  Neb.  N.  Y. 

*  Rev.  G.  H.  Ferris,  Philadelphia,  Mrs.  Andrew  MacLeish,  Glencoe,  111. 

Pa.  D.  C.  Shull,  Sioux  City,  Iowa. 

Rev.  W.  H.  Geistweit,  St.  Louis,  Mo.  Hon.    E.    W.    Stephens,    Columbia, 

Pres.    G.   A.   Hagstrom,    St.    Paul,  Mo. 

Minn.  Rev.  M.  J.  Twomey,  Newark,  N.  J. 

*  Deceased. 


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Term  expires  1920 

Rev.  H.  R.  Best,   Sioux  Falls,  S.      Rev.   F.    P.   Haggard,   New  York 
Dak.  City. 

Rev.  J.  W.  Brougher,  Los  Angeles,      *??•  J-  J.  Hergrt,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
j  Miss    M.    L.    Howard,    Hartford, 


W.  C.  Coleman,  Wichita,  Kans.  R            A    Maxwell>  Williamsport, 

Rev.  C.  A.  Cook,  Butte,  Mont.  pa. 

Mrs.  M.  G.  Edmands,  Chestnut  Hill,  J.  F.   Schlotter,  Colorado   Springs, 

Mass.  Colo. 

Ex  officio 

Hon.  Charles  E.  Hughes,  New  York  Hon.  Edward  S.  Clinch,  New  York 

City.  City. 

Pres.  Harry  P.  Judson,  Chicago,  111.  Dean    Shailer    Mathews,    Chicago, 

Rev.  Emory  W.  Hunt,  Newton  Cen-  111. 

ter,  Mass.  Pres.  Clarence  A.  Barbour,  Roches- 

Hon.  Henry  Bond,  Brattleboro,  Vt.  ter,  N.  Y. 

OFFICERS  FOR  TEN  YEARS 

(The  addresses  are  those  at  the  time  of  election,  save  in  instances  of 
continuous  service,  where  present  address  is  given.) 

Presidents 

1916-1917,    Barbour,    Pres.    C.    A.,  1907-1908,    Hughes,    Hon.    Charles 

Rochester,  N'.  Y.  E.,  Albany,  N.  Y. 

1912-1914,    Bond,    Henry,    Brattle-  1910-1912,  Hunt,  Rev.  E.  W.,  Gran- 

boro,  Vt.  ville,  Ohio. 

1914-1915,  Clinch,  Hon.  E.  S.,  New  1908-1910,    Judson,    Pres.    H.    P., 

York  City.  Chicago,  111. 

1917-,   Coleman,   George  W.,  Bos-  1915-1916,  Mathews,  Dean  Shailer, 

ton,  Mass.  Chicago,  111. 

Vice-Presidents 

1912-1915,  Ayer,   F.   W.,   Camden,  1913-1915,    Griffith,    R.    B.,    Grand 

N.  J.  Forks,  N.  Dak. 

1911-1912,    Bond,    Henry,    Brattle-  IOOO_IOIO)  Horr,  Pres.  G.  E.,  New- 

boro'  vt  ton  Center,  Mass. 
1908-1909,  1911-1913,  Brasted,  Fred, 

Oklahoma  City,  Okla.  1907-1908,  Judson,  Pres.  H.  P.,  Chi- 

1910-1911,   1917-,  Brimson,  W.   G.,  c*go,  HI. 

Chicago,  111.  1907-1911,    Shank,    C.    S.,    Seattle, 

1917-,  Bustard,  Rev.  W.  W.,  Cleve-  Wash. 

land,  Ohio.  1915-1916,  Shull,  D.  C,  Sioux  City, 

1916-1917,  Coleman,  W.  C.,  Wichita,  Iowa. 

Kans. 

1900-1910,  Field,  F.  H.,  Brooklyn,  WJrWb  Stephens,  Hon.   E.  W., 

|,j  Y  Columbia,  Mo. 

1907-1909,    Greene,    Rev.     S.    H.,  1916-1917,  Villers,  Rev.  T.  J.,  De- 

Washington,  D.  C.  troit,  Mich. 


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Corresponding  Secretary 
1907-,  Bitting,  Rev.  W.  C,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Recording  Secretaries 

1907-1910,    Coleman,    G.    W.,    Bos-      1912-,  Levy,  Rev.  M.  A.,  Brooklyn, 

ton,  Mass.  N.  Y. 

1910-1912,    Franklin,    Rev.    J.    H., 

Colorado   Springs,   Colo. 

Statistical  Secretary 
1917-,  Walker,  Rev.  Charles  A.,  West  Chester,  Pa. 

Assistants  to  Recording  Secretary 

1911-,  Ashworth,  Rev.  R.  A.,  Mil-      1909,   Jacobs,    Rev.    J.    P.,    Kansas 

waukee,  Wis.  City,  Mo. 

1909,   Batten,   Rev.   S.   Z,   Lincoln,      IOII_IQI2)  LevV)  Rev>  M   A->  Xew- 

Neb-  ton  Center,  Mass. 

1909-1910,     Boody,  Rev.     F.     S., 

Somerville,  Mass.  I9°9'  Wilbur,  H.  A.,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

1913-,   Gallup,  Rev.  C.   M.,   Provi-      1911-,  Wright,  Rev.  P.  C,  Hartford, 

dence,  R.  I.  Conn. 

Treasurers 

1907-1912,    Lincoln,    W.    E.,    Pitts-      1912-,   Miner,   F.   L.,   Des   Moines, 
burgh,  Pa.  Iowa. 


MEMBERS  OF  EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE 
FOR  TEN  YEARS 

1910-,  Anderson,  Prof.  F.  L.,  New-  1917-,  Best,  Rev.  H.  R.,  Sioux  Falls, 

ton  Center,  Mass.  S.  Dak. 

1911-1917,   Armstrong,   Rev.   J.    C.,  1907-     fBitting,    Rev.    W.    C.,    St. 

Kansas  City,  Mo.  Louis,   Mo. 

1007-1909,  tAshworth,  Rev.  R.  A,  fBond(   H  Brattleboro, 

Menden,    Conn.  yt 

1912-,  fAyer,  F.  W.,  Camden,  X.  J.  .    ,     .,     ,      „.  , 

1916-  tBarbour,      Pres.      C.     A ,  1J^191* f  nil      '  ' 
Rochester,   N.   Y.                                    homa  Cifr,  Okla. 

1908-1910,  *Barry,   C.   C,  Melrose,  ^o-,   yBrimson,   W.   G.,   Chicago, 
Mass.  In- 

1917-  Bechtel,  S.  B.,  Fort  Wayne,  '9I7-,   Brougher,  Rev.  J.  W.,  Los 
Ind.  Angeles,  Cal. 

1910-,  Beman,  Prof.  W.  W.,  Ann  1907-1908,     Bryan,     Pres.     E.     B., 
Arbor,  Mich.  Franklin,  Ind. 

*  Deceased.  t  Ex  officio. 


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1907-  fBustard,  Rev.  W.  W.,  Cleve-  1909-1910,    1913-,   tGriffith,   R.    B., 

land,  Ohio.  Grand  Forks,  N.  Dak. 

1913-,    Carpenter,    I.    W.,    Omaha,  1900-1911,  *Grippen,  W.  A.,  Bridge- 
Neb,  port,  Conn. 

1910-1916,    Cassidy,    Rev.    G.    W.,  1917-,  Haggard,  Rev.   F.  P.,   New 

Wichita,  Kans.  York  City. 

1910-1914,     Clark,     Sidney,     Grand  1913-,   Hagstrom,   Rev.   G.   A.,   St. 

Forks,  S.  Dak.  Paul,  Minn. 

1008-,   fClinch,   Hon.    E.    S.,   New  1907-,  Hanley,  Rev.  E.  A.,  Roches- 
York  City.  ter,  N.  Y. 

1910-1911,    Colby,    E.    L.,    Orange,  1914-,   Herget,   Rev.  J.  F.,   Cincin- 

N.  J.  nati,  Ohio. 

1007-1914,  fColeman,   G.   W.,   Bos-  1000-1910,  fHorr,  Pres.  G.  E.,  New- 
ton,  Mass.  ton  Center,  Mass. 

1916-,  fColeman,     W.  C,  Wichita,  1917-   Howard,  Miss  M.  L.,  Hart- 

Kans.  ford,  Conn. 

1907-1910,    *Conley,    Rev.    J.    W.,  1907-,  fHughes,  Hon.  C.  E.,  New 

Omaha,  Neb.  York  City. 

1917-,    Cook,    Rev.    C.    A.,    Butte,  1910-,  fHunt,  Rev.  E.  W.,  Newton 

Mont.  .Center,  Mass. 

IQI5-,    Coshow,    O.    P.,    Roseburg,  1912-1913,    Hulburt,    Rev.    D.    W., 

Ore.  Wauwatosa,  Wis. 

1007-1913,    Crandall,    Rev.    L.    A.,  1910-1911,  Johnson,  A.  L.,  Indiana. 

Minneapolis,  Minn.  1915-,  Johnson,  Mrs.   F.   W.,   Chi- 

1910-1914,     Curry,     Rev.     E.     R.,  cago,   111. 

Omaha,  Neb.  1907-    tjudson,  Pres.   H.   P.,   Chi- 

1910-1914,    Dietrich,    F.    S.,    Boise,  cago,  111. 

Idaho.  1911-,  Keller,  Luther,  Scranton,  Pa. 

1910-1913,   Earle,  R.  O.,   St.  Paul,  1911-1914,  Lemon,  Rev.  J.  B.,  Cleve- 

Minn.  land,  Ohio. 

1914-,  Edmands,  Mrs.  M.  G.,  Chest-  1912-,  fLevy,  Rev.  M.  A.,  Brooklyn, 

nut  Hill,  Mass.  N.  Y. 

1913-1916,     *Ferris,    Rev.     G.    H.,  1908-1910,    Lewis,    C.    T.,    Toledo, 

Philadelphia,  Pa.  Ohio. 

1909-1910,  fField,  F.  H.,  Brooklyn,  1007-1912,  Lindsay,  E.  J.,  Milwau- 

N.  Y.  kee,  Wis. 

1907-1910,  1911-1912,  fFranklin,  1907-1912,    Lincoln,    W.    E.,    Pitts- 
Rev.    J.    H.,    Colorado    Springs,  burgh,  Pa. 
Colo.  1910-,  Lynch,  Rev.  R.  N.,  Petaluma, 

1913-1915,  Garabrant,  D.  G.,  Bloom-  Cal. 

field,  N.  J.  1915-,     MacLeish,     Mrs.     Andrew, 

1910-1912,    Garnett,    J.    H.,    Santa  Glencoe,  111. 

Ana,  Cal.  1910-1911,    McCurdy,    J.    C.,    New 

1912-    Geistweit,   Rev.   W.   H.,    St.  York  City. 

Louis,  Mo.  1913-1916,    Martin,    F.    J.,    Seattle, 

1912-1915,  Gile,  H.  S.,  Salem,  Ore.  Wash. 

1907-1910,    *Greene,    Rev.    B.    A,,  1910-,     fMathews,     Dean     Shailer, 

Evanston,  111.  Chicago,  111. 

1907-1909,    tGreene,    Rev.    S.    H.,  1917-    Maxwell,   Rev.   J.   A.,   Wil- 

Washington,   D.   C.  liamsport,  Pa. 

*  Deceased.  t  Ex  officio. 


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1910-1912,  Meeser,  Prof.  S.  B., 
Chester,  Pa. 

1912-,  fMiner,  F.  L.,  Des  Moines, 
Iowa. 

1007-1009,  Montague,  Rev.  J.  Y., 
Hiawatha,  Kans. 

1911-,  Nicholson,  E.  K.,  Bridge- 
port, Conn. 

1910-1911,  Orem,  W.  C,  Salt  Lake 
City,  Utah. 

1910-1914,  Otto,  Rev.  Benjamin, 
Kansas  City,  Mo. 

1909-1910,  Porter,  H.  K.,  Pitts- 
burgh, Pa. 

1915-  Price,  Rev.  O.  J.,  Lansing, 
Mich. 

1910-,  Purinton,  Pres.  D.  B.,  Mor- 
gantown,  W.  Va. 

1910-1914,  Ralston,  Rev.  C.  F., 
Yonkers,  N.  Y. 

1907-1909,  Rosselle,  Rev.  W.  Q., 
Williamsport,  Pa. 

1907-1908,  Rowley,  Rev.  F.  H.,  Bos- 
ton, Mass. 

1907-1909,  Runyon,  E.  M.,  Portland, 
Ore. 

1917-,  Schlotter,  J.  F.,  Colorado 
Springs,  Colo. 

1910-1912,  *Shallenberger,  Gen.  W. 
S.,  Washington,  D.  C. 


1907-1911,  fShank,  C.  S.,  Seattle, 
Wash. 

1908-1913,  1915-  fShull,  D.  C., 
Sioux  City,  Iowa. 

IQI5-,  tStephens,  Hon.  E.  W.,  Col- 
umbia, Mo. 

1911-,  Stickney,  Hon.  W.  W.,  Lud- 
low,  Vt. 

1910-,  Stockham,  A.  H.,  Delta, 
Colo. 

1909-,  Swasey,  Ambrose,  Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

1007-1008,  Sweet,  Rev.  F.  W., 
Adrian,  Mich. 

1912-1913,  Treat,  M.  C.,  Washing- 
ton, Pa. 

1913-,  Twomey,  Rev.  M.  J.,  Newark, 
N.  J. 

1907-1908,  Vaughan,  J.  R.,  Water- 
loo, Iowa. 

1910-1913,  1914-1917,  Vichert,  Rev. 
J.  F.,  Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 

1916-,  fVillers,  Rev.  T.  J.,  Detroit, 
Mich. 

1917-,  fWalker,  Rev.  C.  A.,  West 
Chester,  Pa. 

1914-  Webb,  L.  M.,  Portland,  Me. 

1900-1910,  Wooddy,  Rev.  C.  A., 
Portland,  Ore. 


*  Deceased 


t  Ex  officio 


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By  Recording  Secretary  Maurice  A.  Levy 

American  Baptist  Foreign  Mission  Society,  Organization  and  Management 
of,  1913,  I58ff. 

American  Baptist  Publication  Society  and  American  Bible  Society,  Re- 
lations between,  1915,  26f. 

Affiliating  Organizations,  1911,  7of.,  76f. 

Annuities,  Proposed  Plan  for,  1914,  iO4ff. 

Apportionment  Plan,  Development  of,  1909,  66ff. 

Board  of  Education,  1909,  156;  1910,  isSff. ;  1911,  72. 

Bulletins : 

i.  BROTHERHOOD 

"Brotherhood  in  Action,"  1916,   I75ff. 
"  Laymen  and  the  Kingdom,"  1917,  2468. 
"  Social  Service  by  Organized  Men,"  1917,  253ff. 

2.  RELIGIOUS  EDUCATION 

"A  Program  of  Religious  Education  in  a  Local  Church,"  1913,  Siff. 
"  Suggestions  for  a  Committee  on  Religious  Education  in  a  Local 
Church,"  1913,  6iff. 

"  Standard  of  Efficiency  for  Baptist  Sunday  Schools,"  1913,  64ff. 
"Program   of   Religious   Education   in   a   Church   of   One   Hundred 

Members  or  Less,"  1914,  87ff. ;  1915,  I25ff. 

"  Church  and  the  Public  School  in  Religious  Education,"  1915,  I32ff. 
"Religion  in  the  Home,"  1915,  I39ff. 
"Public  Worship — Morning   Service,"   1915,   I46ff. 
"  Religious  Education  in  the  Five  Year  Program,"  1916,  I33ff. 
"Preparation  for  Church-membership,  1917,  I24ff. 
"The  Church  School  Building,"  1917,  I27ff. 

"  Developing  a  Trained  Leadership  for  the  Churches,"  1917,  I35ff. 
"  Library  on  Religious  Education,"  1917,  I48ff. 

3.  SOCIAL  SERVICE 
"Reading  Courses,"  1913,  I3off. 
"  Social  Service  Year,"  1914,  I42ff. 


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"  Social  Program  of  the  Local  Church,"  1914,  I47ff. 

"  Social  Service  Library,"  1914,  i49f . 

"  Temperance  Situation  and  the  Churches'  Duty,"  1914,  I56ff. 

"  Peace  and  Arbitration,"  1915,  :87ff. 

"  State  Social  Sen-ice,"  1915,  I9off. 

"America's  International  Policy,"  1916,  iO9ff. 

"  Social  Service  by  Young  People,"  1917,  275 ff. 

"Church  and  Industrial  Peace,"  1917,  2ox>ff. 

"  Social  Service  in  the  Five  Year  Program,"  1917,  3OO-iff. 

"Emergency  War  Measures,"  1917,  3OO-7ff. 
Efficiency  of   Administration   of   Cooperating   Organizations,    1914,    76ff. ; 

1915,  78ff. ;  1916,  76ff. ;  1917,  loiff.,  n6f. 
Five  Year  Program,  1915,  233;  1916,  67ff. ;  1917,  94ff. 
Free  Baptists,  1911,  59! ;  1912,  47. 
General  Missionaries,  1909,  158. 
Joint  Magazine,  1908,  80;  1909,  155. 
Judson  Memorial  Fund,  1917,  I92ff. 
Ministers  and  Missionaries  Benefit  Board,  1911,  70;  1913,  4f. 

"  Northern    Baptist    Convention :    Its    Origin,    Purpose,    and    Functions," 
1915,  31  iff. 

Northern  Baptist  Convention : 

Historical  Statement,  1007,  7ff. 

Incorporation  of,  1910,  78ff.,  89,  92ff. ;  1912,  I33ff. 

Preliminary  Resolutions,  1907,  isf. 

Provisional  Constitution  and  By-laws  of,  1907,  4ff.,  17. 

Provisional  Organization  of,  1907,  17. 
Made  permanent,  1908,  28. 

Relation  of,  to  Societies,  1907,  :8f. 

To  State  Conventions,  1909,  I42ff. ;  1910,  I38ff. 

Seal  of,  1915,  29. 

Societies  Become  Cooperating  Organizations  of,   1908,  87,   103,   104, ; 

1909,  43,  I02ff. ;   1913,  7if. ;   1914,  7f. 
Restudy  of  Annual  Budgets,  1916,  3iff. 

Southern  Baptist  Convention,  19*11,  53ff. ;  1912,  46,  93ff. ;  1914,  n8f. 
Standardization  of  the  Ministry,  1917,  34ff. 
State  Convention  Statistical  Standards,  1915,  2O7ff. 
State  Surveys,  1914,  i87ff. 
United  Missionary  Campaign,  1914,  i68ff. 


XI 
CONVENTION  STATISTICS 

By  Charles  A.  Walter,  Statistical  Secretary 


AMERICAN  BAPTIST  FOREIGN  MISSION 
SOCIETY 


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208,371.63 

69.577.94 

87,528.74 

33,358.49 

963,129.45 

1910 

590,669.73 

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81,894.09 

31,379-47 

31,288.02 

827,756.99 

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613,246.63 

7,918.19 

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23,919-30 

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1912 

680,608.11 

88,843.40 

67,748.36 

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890,044.87 

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736,885.56 

82,490.46 

65,273.61 

20,582.77 

72,129.51 

977,361.91 

1914 

665,435.16 

78,722.10 

78,870.75 

6,498.42 

66,846.99 

896,373-42 

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877.539-31 

74,324.39 

63,905-56 

19,848.73 

74,756.66 

1,110,374.65 

1916 

712,795-19 

178,512.32 

41,947.04 

5,790.75 

80,865.46 

1,019,910.76 

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652,578.35 

166,449.94 

126,417-34 

17.195-66 

79,510.15 

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$1,116,813.27 

$768,921.21 

$317.519-47 

$538,915.40 

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134,239.89 

$1,121.13 

27,756.99 

1912    

757,538.12 

907,250.85 

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869,964.76 

20,142.22 

126,797.98 

1,016,004.06 

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15,430.61 

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$300,693.84] 

$1,292,774.89 

$374,569.20 

$1,121.13 

$9,593.345-47 

•  Surplus  of  Appropriations,  as  follows: 

Previous  year's   deficit    $3,805.94 

Medical  work   in   China 5,000.00 

Losses  in  missionaries'  salaries  in  China 8,000.00 

Legacy    Reserve    Fund 20,404.70 

$37,210.64 


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Legacies 

Annuities 

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$179,834.07 

$104,239.89 

$69,149.14 

$23,476.46 

1910     

239,370.57 

140,509.96 

66,000.00 

39>i43-43 

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251,022.61 

123,987.79 

60,000.00 

57,142.67 

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119,097.56 

23  827.76 

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282,480.14 

120,068.08 

87,332.45 

1  08  832  64 

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258,105.78 

129,249.98 

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262,021.42 

120,172.00 

67,674.02 

28,198  89 

258,997.44 

108,413.56 

72,880  66 

277,  ,161.  e8 

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$2,504,217.42 

$1,167,573-37 

$893,492.91 

$235,OII.8l 

$760,602.10 

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Church  Edi- 
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1908     

$235,448.23 

$102,306.42 

$35,325.60 

$24,430.07 

$73,573.29 

10.09     

251,587.39 

65,147.84 

25,886.11 

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52,784.83 

31.167.80 

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22.787  8j. 

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66,948  76 

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326,250.85 

146,986.60 

40,088.82 

85,876.69 

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$1,295,738.79 

$440,551-44 

$255>792.94 

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ORGANIZATIONS 


MK Ml'.ERSHIP  AND   CHURCH  PROPERTY 


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California,  Northern   .  . 
California,  Southern    .  . 

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Delaware   

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District  of  Columbia  .  .  . 
Idaho    

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Illinois   

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Minnesota    

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New  York    

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Pennsylvania    

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Ministers 

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Bible  School 
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Parsonages 

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1917 
1907 
1917 
1907 
1917 

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60 
247 
141 
80 
243 
1  16 

434 
227 
1,142 
947 
764 
979 

1,136 
3,136 
20,911 
16,634 
11,541 
18,910 
12,533 

1,148 
2,904 
11,290 
1  6,  1  06 
5,261 

19,441 
9,914 

3 
17 

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$75,200 
196,500 
1,454,700 
1,706,600 
856,900 
1,719,800 

1917 

163 

94 

1,042 
808 

17,312 

12,006 

33 

995,600 
2,146,200 

972 

27,635 

18,468 

2,872,300 

1907 

1917 

15 

15 

15 

17 

114 
IOI 

2,198 
2,913 
6,859 

1,984 
2,492 

4 

226,500 
441,000 

1917 

22 

40 

414 

10,329 
1,836 

9,411 

2 

1,113,800 

1917 

51 

33 

369 

8  At  I 

4,700 

4,792 

18 

235,433 

1917 

1.295 

i,38i 

9,940 

169,946 

114,056 



9,471,800 
1,992,900 

1917 

517 

27O 

3»56l 

73,o89 

58,221 

85 

3,324,700 

1917 

396 
628 

272 

2>I56 

48,512 

40,425 

156 

3,285,700 

1917 

1907 

1917 
1907 

595 
240 
409 
346 

440 
185 
259 
440 
6ie 

3,651 
691 
1,648 
2,894 

60,765 
20,857 
33,647 
75,507 
89,345 

51,574 
20,195 
30,775 
64,701 
79,638 

146 
'  '183 

2,397,8oo 
1,160,400 
2,263,000 
7,584,500 
10,462,700 

1917 
1907 
1917 
1907 

443 
256 
248 
1,  880 
I  826 

386 
193 
238 
1,441 

3,553 
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i  ,597 

53,389 
23,907 
28,466 
171,797 
200,632 

53,852 
21,145 
25,558 
106,582 
96,060 

202 
117 

4,473,500 
1,469,400 
2,466,800 
3,955,000 
2,179,900 

165,300 

1917 
1907 
1917 

5S 
218 

192 

57 
169 
181 

274 

,120 

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4,077 
18,178 
20,650 
228 

4-058 
14,981 
I7>43i 
284 

15 
90 

357,100 
998,900 
1,141,600 
6,000 

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12 

86 

12 

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24 

501 

919 
8,851 

2 

62,300 
719,000 

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731 

14,822 

1  1,534 

1,296,900 

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61,837 

5,402,300 

1917 
1907 
1917 

376 
93i 
984 
76 

458 
1,175 

1,055 

3,330 
5,627 
8,216 
380 

80,878 
164,538 
191,197 
4,883 

53,898 
138,120 
144,009 

4,  2  ^6 

180 
602 

7,730,400 
18,526,900 
22,331,500 
224,800 

1917 
1907 

95 
628 
618 

64 
580 

354 
3,8i4 
3>798 

6,821 
80,592 
76,564 

7,708 
60,746 

73,537 

42 

407,000 
4,321,000 
5,192,400 

118 

487 

515,500 

1917 

141 

140 

855 

15,333 

13,187 

34 

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1917 

804 
'  76 

689 
80 

5,188 
498 

157*005 

129,234 

278 

13,046,600 
1,375,300 

1917 

114 

no 

702 
298 

19,546 

18,636 
7,331 

46 

1,382,800 
316,700 

1917 

103 

90 

461 

8,573 

7,957 

600,500 
80,000 

1917 

14 

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1,343 

8.372 

1,323 

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1917 
1907 
1917 
1907 
1917 
1907 
1917 
1907 
1917 

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118 
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210 
21 
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360 

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614 
322 
385 
1,070 
657 
2,914 
2,244 
1,030 
1,215 
28 
178 

9,956 
4,200 
7,296 
9,137 

11,774 
53,231 
60,437 
19,683 
20,559 
837 
2,053 

9,350 
4,766 
6,632 
11,795 
1  1,  660 
32,512 
44.569 
18,966 
12,053 
1,348 
2,695 

105 
13 
34 
45 
59 
10 

978,200 
259,200 
522,000 
5Si,9oo 
963,100 
1,089,000 
1,554,900 
1,247,200 
i.773,5oo 
71,800 
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1907 
1917 

IO.999 

11,866 

9,455 
10,161 

65,589 
79,971 

1,308,817 
1,549,665 

1,037,902 
1,215,969 

3 
2,545 

$88,632,100 
110,113,200 

*  Union  of  Baptists  and  Free  Baptists  was  consummated  during  this  period. 


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1907 
1917 
1907 

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1907 
1917 

$17,577 
31,286 

172,221 
184,056 
101,464 
239,008 
117,835 
137,021 
271,156 

280,294 

22,295 
21,143 
96,039 
115,756 
18,158 
51,571 
946,777 
1,127,044 
430,078 
272,099 
333,240 
490,225 
307,732 
347,740 
151,334 
261,875 
1,001,982 
1,158,521 
406,578 
461,270 
230,963 
298,064 

725,625 
450,498 
43,290 
67,351 
150,891 

238,399 
289 
8,104 

91,588 

155,222 
648,570 

618,701 
1,244,614 

1,917,303 
53,529 
90,360 
560,781 
431,870 
96,994 

102,477 
1,188,553 
1,029,606 
166,510 
207,476 
56,790 
86,724 
7,735 
19,849 
75,489 
99,000 
45,734 
58,075 
126,661 
97,826 
152,029 
256,520 
187,824 
202,728 
11,772 
22,171 

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$1,327 
3,078 
6,326 
10,711 

22,939 
20,618 
5,153 
8,423 
10,762 
8,493 
557 
1,381 
2,082 
3,655 
841 
6,634 
33,329 
22,180 
5,824 
21,744 
6,765 
13,757 
6,629 
11,555 
5,479 
7,6  1  2 
18,122 
24,560 
15,150 

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21,700 

301 
6,796 
388 
35,142 
1,095 
934 
ito 
597 
256 
43i 

$809 

*6'3 
6,917 

10,887 
23,646 
70,56o 

8,116 
81,607 
19,383 
36,219 
649 
1,363 
n,i86 
24,177 
•1,151 
675 
79,622 
63,433 
10,904 

'"8,597 
15,786 
10,710 
55,763 
8,753 
9>845 
45,821 
57,38o 
17,573 
25,361 
36,219 
40,392 
79,296 
15,604 
1,758 
2,173 
7,299 
12,215 

$20,991 
44,656 
244,983 
363,401 
250,818 
429,886 
150,724 
249.125 
336,264 
358,656 
25,389 
34,727 
129,246 
163,354 
21,868 
68,391 
1,119,649 
1,457,360 
470,085 
538,160 
423,066 
576,239 
344,797 
561,993 
188,849 
386,394 
I,i79,99i 
1,393,421 
466,947 
715,002 
302,647 
493,024 
871,240 

2.  California,  Northern   .  . 
3.  California,  Southern   .  . 

H5,295 
102,468 
92,904 

Connecticut 

43,7i6 

7.  District  of  Columbia... 
8    Idaho 

5,697 

9,129 

382 
§,585 
8,479 

4,122 
2,142 
7,410 
7,607 

5,500 
11,322 
1,229 
1,978 
4,067 
4,164 
2,343 

180,427 

Kan- 

• 

135,512 

14.  Massachusetts    

54,845 

1  5.  Michigan     

Mi 

130,233 

10,126 
21,184 
41,196 
57,570 
735 
3,027 
5,345 
8,354 

'    3,991 
S,5i6 
6,894 
7,341 

17.  Missouri    

86,465 

45,049 
75,576 
273,191 
282,798 
289 
15,727 
105,279 
180,640 
775,513 
1,034,718 
2,267,027 
2,848,005 
63,833 
109,943 
662,367 
715,009 
109,488 
165,467 
1,420,884 
1,806,053 
194,302 
243,918 
76,343 
142,857 
15,038 
21,617 
87,347 
117,977 
6l,432 
"8,753 
156,019 
143,942 
177,214 
303,304 
217,108 
288,574 
I5,46i 
24,542 

19.  Nebraska    

29,570 

3,909 
4,562 

7,049 

399 
1,234 
2,042 
13,720 
18,142 
37,888 
34,736 
1,801 
3,242 
10,469 
15,803 
2,286 
5,755 
26,066 
14,742 
2,126' 
3,556 
2,748 
4,694 
395 
796 
2,601 
5,697 
2,001 
4,193 
4.835 
6,412 
6,383: 
"'73^ 
6,156; 
8,717 
457 
804 

60 

251 
368 
3,508 
4,311 
18,706 
11,859 
50i 

US 
3,228 
3,776 
59,610 
61,237 
296,715 
452,906 
3,164 
16,341 
55,383 

23.  New  York   

333,325 
255,583 
435,5ii 

24.  North  Dakota    

25.  Ohio    

13,513 
4,148 
229 
3,850 
f,o6o 
,820 
636 
573 
2,113 
3,536 

170,181 

4,533 
6,876 
101,639 
99,25' 
8,265 
12,570 
5,644 
5,595 
6,042 
805 
2,482 

3,200  j 

208 
5,476 
8,645 
4,996 
6,098 
11,164 

6,768 

9,898 
2,566 
290 

29,474 

397,720 

19,744 

30.  Utah 

31,165 

62 
274 
480 
17 
1,33' 
387 
1,760 
1,409 
2,278 
975 

32.  Washington,    Eastern... 
33.  Washington,   Western.. 
34.  West  Virginia  

15,845 

49,679 

21,527 

35.  Wisconsin    

47,112 

8 

Total  

1907 

$10,260,601 

$358,051 

$359,872 

$101,631 

$913,008 

$13,302,738 

1917 

11,607,224 

2,451,280 

396,004 

152,743 

1,221,471 

16,473,209 

XII 
INDEX 

By  Daniel  G.  Stevens 


INDEX 


"  A  Man  from  Pennsylvania,"  60,  62. 

Act  of  Incorporation  of  N.  B.  C.,  19. 

Affiliating  organizations:  in  relation  to  N. 
B.  C.,  28,  38,  81,  101;  directory  of,  79; 
number  of,  84;  statistical  survey  of, 
126,  127. 

Africa,  46. 

Aiken  Institute,  53. 

Alaska,  54. 

American  Baptist  Education  Society,  re- 
lation of,  to  Board  of  Education,  70. 

American  Baptist  Foreign  Mission  So- 
ciety: in  relation  to  N.  B.  C.,  36;  offi- 
cers of,  43;  sketch  of  history  and  work 
of,  44;  educational  work  of,  45;  in  re- 
lation to  W.  A.  B.  F.  M.  S.,  45,  55,  56; 
efficiency  in  work  of,  105;  statistics  of, 
121. 

American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society: 
resolutions  adopted  by,  3,  6;  in  coopera- 
tion with  N.  B.  C.,  36;  officers  of,  43; 
sketch  of  work  of,  50;  educational  work 
of,  50;  church  edifice  work  of,  50,  51; 
relation  of,  to  Committee  on  Evangel- 
ism, 97;  efficiency  in  work  of,  105;  sta- 
tistics of,  123. 

American  Baptist  Mission  Press,  46. 

American  Baptist  Missionary  Union:  reso- 
lutions presented  by,  3;  resolutions 
adopted  by,  6;  heir  of  the  General  Mis- 
sionary Convention,  44. 

American  Baptist  Publication  Society:  res- 
olutions adopted  by,  3,6;  in  cooperation 
with  N.  B.  C.,  36;  officers  of,  43;  sketch 
of  work  of,  47;  educational  work  of, 
48;  in  relation  to  Committee  on  Re- 
ligious Education,  48,  96;  conductor  of 
young  people's  work,  49;  chapel-car 
work  of,  49;  social  service  department 
of,  49;  Daily  Vacation  Bible  Schools  of, 
49;  rural  life  and  community  better- 
ment work  of,  49;  temperance  campaign 
of,  49;  Bible  work  of,  49;  cooperating 
with  Social  Service  Commission,  95;  in 
relation  to  Committee  on  Young  Peo- 
ple's Work,  97;  efficiency  in  work  of, 
105;  statistics  of,  122. 


American  Bible  Society,  Committee  to 
Cooperate  with,  in  Arranging  for  its 
Centennial,  92. 

Anniversaries:  relations  of  denominational 
organizations  discussed  at,  3,  4;  reform 
in  conducting,  5;  real  gatherings  of  the 
churches,  13. 

Annual,  Convention,  108. 

Apportionment:  by  committees  of  N.  B. 
C.  and  of  State  Conventions,  23,  29,  82; 
system,  102.  (See  Apportionment  Com- 
mittee.) 

Apportionment  Committee:  composition 
and  duties  of,  23,  93;  term  of  service 
of,  26;  appointment  of,  26;  to  report  in 
writing,  26;  relation  of,  to  affiliating  or- 
ganizations, 29;  report  of,  as  to  State 
Conventions,  85;  work  of,  105;  and 
United  Missionary  Campaign,  106. 

Ashmore  Theological   Seminary,  46. 

Assam,  44,  54. 

B 

Baptisms,  in  Five  Year  Program,  107. 

Baptist  Brotherhood,  95,  106.  (See  Bap- 
tist Brotherhood,  Committee  on.) 

Baptist  Brotherhood,  Committee  on:  com- 
position and  duties  of,  25;  appointment 
of,  26;  to  report  in  writing,  26;  work 
of,  95- 

Baptist  Congress,  3,  8. 

"  Baptist  Layman,  A,"  62. 

Baptist  Missionary  Training  School,  52. 

Baptist  polity,  13. 

Baptist  World  Alliance,  103. 

Baptist  World  Congress,  7. 

Baptist  Young  People's  Union,  work  of, 
105. 

Bengal-Orissa,  44,  54. 

Bible  Bands,  52. 

Bible  in  foreign  tongues,  45,  47,  49. 

Bible  question,  3. 

Board  of  Education:  organization  of,  28; 
duties  of,  28,  38;  members  of,  68;  mem- 
bers of,  for  seven  years,  68;  work  of, 
69;  composition  of,  70;  officers  of,  70; 
budget  of,  70;  survey  of  educational 
situation  by,  71;  provides  for  moral  and 
religious  interests  of  Baptist  students, 


132 


INDEX 


72,  105;  aids  schools  and  colleges,  72, 
105;  and  Five  Year  Program,  73. 

Boards,  the  Convention,  59. 

Brotherhood  Council,  95. 

"  Brotherhood  Council,   Men's,"  94. 

Budget:  of  N.  B.  C.,  22,  23;  of  cooperat- 
ing organizations,  27;  system,  102. 

Burma,  44,  45,  54,  56. 

By-laws  of  N.  B.  C.,  20. 


Call  for  meeting  at  which  N.  B.  C.  was 
organized,  9. 

Calvary  Baptist  Church,  meeting  at,  9. 

Central  America,  51,  53,  54. 

Chapel  cars,  49. 

Chicago  Baptist  Associatien,  7. 

China,  44,  46,  54,  56. 

Christian  Stewardship,  General  Commit- 
tee on,  92. 

Church  and  State,  14. 

Church  edifice  work  of  A.  B.  H.  M.  S., 

5°i  Si- 
City  Missions,  Committee  on:  composition 
and  duties  of,  24,  94;  appointment  of, 
26;  to  report  in  writing,  26;  work  of, 
94- 

City  missions,  promoted  by  A.  B.  H.  M. 
S.,  51,  by  N.  B.  C.,  104. 

Collection  agencies,  6. 

College,  Rangoon  Baptist,  46. 

Colportage  work  of  A.   B.   P.   S.,  48. 

Comity:  interdenominational,  104;  within 
and  without  the  denomination,  108. 

Commission  on  Coordination,  A,  4. 

Commission  on  Systematic  Beneficence,  A, 

3- 

"  Committee  "  or  "  Commission,"  91. 

Committees  of  N.  B.  C.  (See  names  of 
committees.) 

Committee  on  Christian  Stewardship,  Gen- 
eral, 92. 

Conference,  Committee  of,  6. 

Conference  on  Faith  and  Order,  92,  102, 
104. 

Conference  with  Committee  of  Southern 
Baptist  Convention,  92,  102. 

Congo,  Belgian,  44,  54. 

Convention  Annuals,  a  Digest  of,  101. 

Convention  Committees,  the,  22,  37,  91. 
(See  names  of  committees.) 

Convention  Seal,  35,  36. 

Convention  Sessions,  Table  of,   in. 

Cooperating  organizations:  relation  of,  to 
N.  B.  C.,  15,  27,  38;  directory  of,  43. 

Cooperation  with  Ministers  and  Mission- 
aries Benefit  Board,  Committee  of,  62. 


Coordination:  a  Commission  on,  4;  a  mass- 
meeting  on,  4. 

Coordination  of  Baptist  Bodies  Using  For- 
eign Languages,  Committee  on  the: 
composition  and  duties  of,  26,  97;  ap- 
pointment of,  26;  to  report  in  writing, 
26;  work  of,  98. 

Coordination  of  denominational  work:  en- 
deavors to  effect,  3;  effected,  15. 

Coordination  of  educational  agencies  in 
the  local  church,  92,  96. 

Correspondence  teacher-training  courses, 
48. 

Credentials,  Committee  on,  92. 

Cuba,  50,  51,  53,  54. 

Gushing  Memorial,  46. 


D 

Daily    Vacation    Bible    Schools    of    A.    B. 

P.  S.,  49,  S3- 

Declaration  of  N.  B.  C.,  20. 
Delegates     to     the     Federal     Council     of 

Churches    of    Christ    in    America,    92, 

102. 

Delegates  to  the  N.  B.  C.,  20. 
Democracy:  church,  14;  and  efficiency,  14; 

in  N.  B.  C.,  37,  102,  106. 
Denominational   Day:    Committee   on,   92; 

observance  of,  103,  108. 
Denominational    Journals,    Committee    on, 

92. 
Denominational      Objectives,      Conference 

on,  107. 
"  Denominational  Relations  to  Educational 

Institutions,  Committee  on,"  69. 
Dispensaries,  45,  55. 


Education,  Christian:  on  foreign  fields, 
45;  in  field  of  N.  B.  C.,  105;  in  Five 
Year  Program,  107. 

Educational  Day,  108. 

Educational  institutions  in  Northern 
States,  Baptist,  74. 

Educational  work:  of  A.  B.  F.  M.  S.,  45; 
of  A.  B.  P.  S.,  48;  of  A.  B.  H.  M.  S., 
50;  of  W.  A.  B.  H.  M.  S.,  52;  of  W. 
A.  B.  F.  M.  S.,  55- 

Efficiency:  and  church  democracy,  14;  in 
the  general  Societies,  15,  105;  promoted 
by  N.  B.  C.,  38,  104;  and  A.  B.  H.  M. 
S.,  51;  standard  of,  104;  in  State  or- 
ganizations, 105. 

Ellen  Mitchell  Memorial  Hospital,  56. 

El  Salvador,  50. 

Ellis,  F.  M.,  quoted,  3. 


INDEX 


133 


Enrolment,  Committee  on,  composition 
and  duties  of,  23. 

Europe,  Baptist  cause  in,  45. 

European  Baptists:  greetings  to,  102; 
greetings  from,  103. 

Evangelism:  by  A.  B.  F.  M.  S.,  45;  con- 
cern of  American  Baptists,  105;  in  Five 
Year  Program,  107. 

Evangelism,  Committee  on:  composition 
and  duties  of,  25,  97;  appointment  of, 
26;  to  report  in  writing,  26;  relation 
of,  to  A.  B.  H.  M.  S.,  97. 

Executive  Committee  of  the  N.  B.  C.: 
election  and  duties  of,  22,  93;  to  report 
in  writing,  26;  represented  on  Commit- 
tee of  Nominations,  26,  37;  elected  by 
delegates  from  the  churches,  36;  ap- 
points members  of  Board  of  Education, 
70;  work  of,  102;  and  standard  of  effi- 
ciency, 104;  and  Five  Year  Program, 
106. 


States  of  America  for  Foreign  Missions, 

The,  44. 
Giving,  systematic,  in  Five  Year  Program, 

107. 
Greene,  Stephen,  report  by,  4,  5. 

H 

Historical  Preface,   i-io. 
Horr,  George  E.,  quoted,  3. 
Hospitals,  45,  55,  56. 


Independence  of  the  churches,  14,  20,  35. 
India,  44,  46,  54,  56. 
Indian  tribes,  50,  52,  54. 
Individualism  in  Baptist  polity,  13. 
Industrial  missions:  on  foreign  fields,  45; 

on  home  fields,  52. 
International  Relations,  Committee  on,  92. 


Faith  and  Order:  world,  92,  102;  World 
Conference  of,  104. 

Federal  Council  of  Churches  of  Christ  in 
America,  92,  102. 

Fifteen,  Committee  of,  6. 

Finance  Committee  of  N.  B.  C.:  powers 
of,  15;  term  of  service  of,  26;  to  report 
in  writing,  26;  appointment  of,  26;  re- 
lation of,  to  cooperating  organizations, 
27,  to  M.  and  M.  B.  B.,  62;  duties  of, 
93;  work  of,  102,  105. 

Fiscal  Year,  Committee  on,  92. 

Five  Year  Program,  47,  73,  106,  107. 

Five  Year  Program,  Committee  on,  92. 

Foreign-speaking  Baptist  bodies,  coordina- 
tion of,  in  N.  B.  C.,  103. 

Foreign-speaking  peoples  in  America, 
work  among,  50,  53,  54,  103. 

Forward  Movement  for  Missionary  Edu- 
cation, Baptist,  92. 

Free  Baptist  Churches:  union  of,  with 
Baptists,  promoted  by  State  Conven- 
tions, 87;  by  N.  B.  C.,  102;  transfer  of 
denominational  interests  of,  to  N.  B.  C., 
103. 


General   Baptists,    union   of,   with   regular 

Baptists,  104. 
General    Convention    of    the    Baptists    of 

North  America,  7. 
General    Missionaries    in    Foreign    Lands, 

Committee  on,  92. 
General    Missionary    Convention    of    the 

Baptist     Denomination     in    the    United 


Japan,  44,  46,  54. 

Judson,   Adoniram,   and  the    foreign   mis- 
sion enterprise,  44. 

K 

Karens,  45. 
Kimpese,  46. 
Kindergarten,  53,  56. 


Latin  America,  53. 

Law  Committee:  duties  of,  24,  94;  ap- 
pointment of,  26;  opinion  of,  as  to  re- 
lation of  State  Conventions  to  N.  B.  C., 
82. 

Laymen's  Missionary  Movement,   106. 

Legal  Relations  of  the  Societies  to  the 
Convention,  Committee  on,  16. 

M 

Managua,  53. 

Medical  missions,  of  A.  B.  F.  M.  S.,  45. 

Mexico,  50,  53,  54. 

Ministers  and  Missionaries  Benefit  Board: 
Board  of  Managers  of,  28;  members  of, 
59;  members  of,  for  seven  years,  59; 
work  of,  60;  composition  of,  61;  bud- 
get of,  62;  committee  of  cooperation 
with,  62;  grants  by,  62;  endowment  of, 
62;  Act  of  Incorporation  of,  63;  by- 
laws of,  64;  managers  of,  64;  officers  of* 
65;  committees  of,  65;  and  Five  Year 
Program,  107. 

Missionary  Campaign,  United,  106. 


INDEX 


Missionary  Education,  Department  of, 
107. 

Missionary  magazines,  proposed  consolida- 
tion of,  3,  6. 

Morehouse,  Henry  L.,  60. 

Morehouse  Memorial  Million,  62. 

N. 

Negroes,  so,  52,  53. 

New  Mexico,  SQ. 

Nicaragua,  50,  53. 

Nine.  Committee  of,  5. 

Nominations  of  Officers,  Committee  on: 
composition  and  duties  of,  24,  26;  nomi- 
nation and  election  of,  31. 

Northern  Baptist  Convention:  minutes  of 
meeting  for  organization  of,  3 ;  call  for 
meeting  for  provisional  organization  of, 
o;  preamble,  constitution,  and  by-laws 
adopted  by,  10,  15,  16,  35;  relation  of, 
to  general  Societies,  15,  101;  Act  of 
Incorporation  of,  19;  Declaration  of, 
20;  by-laws  of,  20;  membership  of,  20; 
officers  of,  20;  meetings  of,  22;  com- 
mittees of,  22,  37  (see  names  of  com- 
mittees) ;  organizations  cooperating  with, 
27;  boards  of,  28;  organizations  affiliat- 
ing with,  28,  84;  standing  resolutions 
of,  30;  rules  of  order  of,  32;  structure 
of,  35;  controlled  by  the  churches,  36; 
and  denominational  unity,  38;  an  ad- 
visory body,  39;  in  relation  to  M.  and 
M.  B.  B.,  60;  a  digest  of  Annuals  of, 
101;  purpose  of,  101;  achievements  of, 
103;  present  officers  of,  112;  members 
of  Executive  Committee  of,  112;  officers 
of,  for  ten  years,  113;  members  of 
Executive  Committee  of,  for  ten  years, 
114;  important  documents  in  Annuals 
of,  117. 

O 

Oklahoma  City,  Convention  at,  15. 
Order   of   Business,    Committee    on:    duty 

of,  24;   composition   of,  26;   nomination 

and  election  of,  31. 


Persian  Missions,  Committee  on,  92. 
Philippines,  44,  46,  54. 
Plan  of  Organization,  Committee  on,  92. 
Ponce,  53. 

Portland,  Convention  at,  16. 
Porto  Rico,  50,  51,  53,  54. 
Prayer,  in  Five  Year  Program,   107. 
Presentation    of   outside    causes   to   N.    B. 
C.,  31. 


R 

Reference  Connniltee,  9.2. 

Religious  Education,  Committee  on:  com- 
position and  duties  of,  25,  95,  102;  ap- 
pointment of,  26;  to  report  in  writing, 
26;  in  relation  to  A.  B.  P.  S.,  48,  96; 
work  of,  jos. 

Religious  Services,  Committee  on,  92. 

Reports,  Committee  on:  duties  of,  23;  to 
report  in  writing,  23,  26;  composition 
of,  26;  nomination  and  election  of,  31. 

Resolutions:  by  A.  B.  H.  M.  S.  and  A.  Ji. 
P.  S.  and  W.  B.  H.  M.  S.  and  A.  B. 
M.  U.,  3,  6;  by  Chicago  Baptist  Asso- 
ciation, 7;  at  Anniversaries  in  1907,  9. 

Resolutions,  Committee  on:  duties  of, 
24;  composition  of,  26;  nomination  and 
election  of,  31. 

Rio  Piedras,  53. 

Rockefeller,  John  D.,  62. 

Roger  Williams  Memorial,  Committee  on, 
92. 

Rural  Life  and  Community  Betterment 
Work  of  A.  B.  P.  S.,  49. 


San  Salvador,  53. 

Selection  of  a  Place  for  the  Next  Annual 
Meeting,  Committee  on:  duties  of,  2.4; 
composition  of,  26;  nomination  and  elec- 
tion of,  31. 

Sermon,  annual,  before  N.  B.  C.,  106. 

Social  service,  in  Five  Year  Program,  107. 

Social  Service  and  Brotherhood  Depart- 
ment of  A.  B.  P.  S.,  49,  95. 

Social  Service,  Committee  on:  duties  of, 
•25>  95 !  appointment  of,  26;  to  report 
in  writing,  26;  work  of,  96,  102,  106. 

Social  service  work  of  A.  B.  P.  S.,  48. 

Societies,  general:  debts  of,  3;  consolida- 
tion of,  deemed  undesirable,  6;  peti- 
tion from  Baptist  Congress  to,  8;  ori- 
gin of,  13;  and  efficiency,  14;  relation 
of,  to  N.  B.  C.,  15,  102;  to  State  Con- 
ventions, 104. 

Soul  liberty,  14. 

Southern   Baptist  Convention,   13. 

Southern  Baptists,  relations  with,  92,  102. 
103. 

Spelman  Seminary,  52. 

"  Standard,  The,"  3. 

State  Apportionment  Committees,  appoint- 
ment and  duties  of,  29,  62. 

State  Conventions:  in  affiliation  with  N. 
B.  C.,  28,  36,  87,  101 ;  efficiency  of,  pro- 
moted by  N.  B.  C.,  38;  and  A.  B.  H.  M. 
S.,  50;  early  organization  of,  81  ;  grow- 


INDEX 


135 


ing  importance  of,  85;  in  cooperation 
with  Board  of  Education,  87;  coordina- 
tion of,  104;  relation  of,  to  general 
Societies,  104;  and  centralization  of  de- 
nominational interests,  108. 

State  Conventions,  Committee  on:  duties 
of,  25,  95;  appointment  of,  26;  to  re- 
port in  writing,  26;  report  of,  as  to 
affiliating  organizations,  83;  made  a 
standing  committee,  86. 

State  mission  societies  and  A.  B.  H.  M. 
S.,  51. 

"  State  Missionary  Organizations,  Rela- 
tions of,  to  the  N.  B.  C.,"  Committee 
on,  95. 

States,  procedure  in  a  vote  by,  in  N.  B. 
C.,  31. 

Statistical  Secretary:  duties  of,  21;  ap- 
pointment of,  86. 

Sunday  School  work:  of  A.  B.  F.  M.  S., 
45 ;  of  A.  B.  P.  S.,  48;  of  W.  A.  B,  H. 
M.  S.,  52;  of  W.  A.  B.  F.  M.  S.,  55; 
and  State  Conventions,  87;  discussion  of 
grade  problems  in,  107. 

Svvasey,  Ambrose,  62. 

Systematic  Beneficence,  A  Commission  on, 

3- 

T 

Temperance:    campaign    by   A.    B.    P..   S., 

49;  work  by  W.  A.  B.  H.  M.  S.,  52. 
Training-schools,  45,  56. 
Transportation,  Committee  on,  92. 


Union  Christian  Colleges  for  Women,  56. 
Union  Girls'  High  School,  56. 


Union   Normal  School  for  Girls,   56. 
Universities,   report  of  work  in,  75. 
University  pastors,   72. 

W 

War  Commission,  the:  and  W.  A.  B.  H. 
M.  S.,  53;  a  voice  of  Baptist  democ- 
racy, 1 06. 

Washington,  Anniversaries  at,  9. 

Woman's  American  Baptist  Foreign  Mis- 
sion Society:  a  cooperating  organiza- 
tion, 36;  officers  of,  43;  in  relation  to 
A.  B.  F.  M.  S.,  45,  55,  56;  sketch  of 
work  of,  54;  educational  work  of,  55; 
statistics  of,  124. 

Woman's  American  Baptist  Home  Mis- 
sion Society:  a  cooperating  organiza- 
tion, 36;  officers  of,  43;  sketch  of  work 
of,  52;  educational  work  of,  52;  statis- 
tics of,  125. 

Woman's  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society, 
resolutions  of,  3,  5. 


Young    People's    Council,    in    relation    to 

A.  B.  P.  S.,  49. 

Young    people's    work:    conducted    by    A. 

B.  P.    S.,   49;    and   the    State    Conven- 
tions, 87. 

Young  People's  Work,  Committee  on: 
composition  and  duties  of,  25,  97,  102; 
appointment  of,  26;  to  report  in  writ- 
ing, 26;  work  of,  97,  105. 


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